Practising when you would rather not, sentence 8
Deliberate practice means working on purpose on the parts you cannot do yet, slowly and carefully.
Who acts: Deliberate practice, you · What happens: mean, work, not do · To what, where: parts · 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 (Deliberate practice, you), 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 | Deliberate | deliberate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 practice | amod |
| 2 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 means | ccomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 purpose | case |
| 6 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 working | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 parts | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 parts | det |
| 9 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 working | obl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 do | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 parts | acl:relcl |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 do | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slowly | punct |
| 16 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 13 do | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 carefully | cc |
| 18 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 16 slowly | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Deliberate practice | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | work | gerund | on the parts; on purpose | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on purpose=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not do | can | you | the parts not said here | yet | slowly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality |
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:8.
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.
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