Practising when you would rather not, sentence 7
Most musicians say the dull part of practice is where skills grow; short sessions, small goals and a fun piece at the end help.
Who acts: Most musicians, dull part, short sessions · What happens: say, be, help · To what, where: end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Practising when you would rather not» of the arts course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most musicians, dull part, short sessions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 musicians | amod |
| 2 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 part | det |
| 5 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 part | amod |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grow | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 practice | case |
| 8 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 grow | cop |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 grow | advmod |
| 11 | skills | skill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grow | nsubj |
| 12 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | ccomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sessions | punct |
| 14 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sessions | amod |
| 15 | sessions | session | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 help | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 goals | punct |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 goals | amod |
| 18 | goals | goal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sessions | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 piece | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 piece | det |
| 21 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 piece | amod |
| 22 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sessions | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 help | obl |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 grow | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Most musicians | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the dull part of practice | grow property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | help | present | short sessions and small goals and a fun piece | at the end | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:arts:003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.lesson:7.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.4.
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