Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 0
Everyone is bad at a new skill at first: guitar strings hurt, paintings go muddy, the hands you draw look like bunches of bananas, and that is the normal start, not a sign you were "not made for it".
Who acts: Everyone, guitar strings, paintings, you, hands, that · What happens: be, hurt, go, draw, look, not make · To what, where: new skill, hands, normal start, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Being bad at something and keeping going» 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 (Everyone, guitar strings, paintings, 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 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 bad | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bad | cop |
| 3 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 skill | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 skill | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 skill | amod |
| 7 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bad | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 first | case |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 skill | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 hurt | punct |
| 11 | guitar | guitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strings | compound |
| 12 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hurt | nsubj |
| 13 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bad | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 15 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 go | nsubj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bad | conj |
| 17 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 go | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 look | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hands | det |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 look | nsubj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 draw | nsubj |
| 22 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hands | acl:relcl |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bad | conj |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 bunches | case |
| 25 | bunches | bunch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 look | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 bananas | case |
| 27 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bunches | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 start | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 start | cc |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 start | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 start | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 start | det |
| 33 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 start | amod |
| 34 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bad | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 a | punct |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 sign | advmod |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 sign | det |
| 38 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 start | conj |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 made | nsubj |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 made | aux:pass |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 made | punct |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 made | advmod |
| 43 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 sign | acl:relcl |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 it | case |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 made | obl |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 made | punct |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bad | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Everyone | a new skill | bad property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hurt | present | guitar strings | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | go | present | paintings | muddy property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | draw | present | you | the hands not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look | present | the hands | like bunches of bananas | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | that | the normal start and a sign | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not make in a quote | past · passive | you | for sign | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for it=Asset |
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:037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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