Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 1

Skills grow by practice, but the clever kind: find the one hard bit, do it slowly and correctly a few times, then put it back, instead of playing the whole piece and making the same mistake every day.

Who acts: Skills · What happens: grow, find, do, put back, play, make · To what, where: one hard bit, skill, whole piece, same mistake

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 (Skills), 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	Skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 practice	case
4	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kind	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 kind	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kind	det
8	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kind	amod
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
11	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 kind	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bit	det
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 bit	nummod
14	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bit	amod
15	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
17	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 find	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	obj
19	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	17 do	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 correctly	cc
21	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	19 slowly	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 times	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 times	amod
24	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 slowly	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 put	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 put	advmod
27	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 do	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 put	obj
29	back	back	ADV	_	27 put	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 playing	punct
31	instead	instead	ADV	_	33 playing	mark
32	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 playing	mark
33	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 put	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 piece	det
35	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 piece	amod
36	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 playing	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 making	cc
38	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 playing	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 mistake	det
40	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 mistake	amod
41	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 making	obj
42	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	43 day	det
43	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 making	obl:unmarked
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Skills			by practice	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by practice=Location
2	find	infinitive		the one hard bit			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic
3	do	infinitive		skill		slowly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	put back	infinitive		skill	then		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
5	play	gerund		the whole piece			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
6	make	gerund		the same mistake	day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product

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:1.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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