Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 12
Research shows sleep helps the brain store new movement skills, so practice plus rest works better than practising tired for hours.
Who acts: Research, sleep, practice · What happens: show, help, store, work, practise · To what, where: new movement skills · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Research, sleep, practice), 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 | Research | research | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 helps | nsubj |
| 4 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shows | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brain | det |
| 6 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 store | compound |
| 7 | store | store | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 helps | xcomp |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 skills | amod |
| 9 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skills | compound |
| 10 | skills | skill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 store | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 works | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 works | advmod |
| 13 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 works | nsubj |
| 14 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 15 rest | cc |
| 15 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 practice | conj |
| 16 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shows | parataxis |
| 17 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 works | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 practising | mark |
| 19 | practising | practise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 works | advcl |
| 20 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 practising | xcomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 hours | case |
| 22 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 practising | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Research | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | help | present | sleep | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | store | infinitive | sleep not said here | new movement skills | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Theme | ||||
| 4 | work | present | practice plus rest | well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | practise | gerund | practice plus rest not said here | hour | tired property | tree rules |
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:12.
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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.
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