Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 13
Switching to a new hobby after giving the old one a fair try is a sensible choice, and skills like rhythm carry over.
Who acts: Switching, skills · What happens: switch, give, be, carry over · To what, where: fair try, old one, sensible choice
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 (Switching, 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 | Switching | switch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 choice | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 hobby | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hobby | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hobby | amod |
| 5 | hobby | hobby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Switching | obl |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 giving | mark |
| 7 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Switching | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 giving | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 try | det |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 try | amod |
| 13 | try | try | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 giving | obj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 choice | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 choice | det |
| 16 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 choice | amod |
| 17 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 carry | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 carry | cc |
| 20 | skills | skill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 carry | nsubj |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 carry | case |
| 22 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 skills | nmod |
| 23 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 choice | conj |
| 24 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 carry | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 choice | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | switch | gerund | to a new hobby result | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hobby=Result | |||||
| 2 | give | gerund | a fair try | the old one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient try=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Switching | a sensible choice | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry over | present | skills rhythm | over property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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:037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.lesson:13.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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