Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 14
Hands are one of the hardest things to draw; drawing your own hand often, starting with simple shapes, helps.
Who acts: Hands, drawing · What happens: be, draw, start, help · To what, where: one, own hand
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 (Hands, drawing), 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 | Hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 things | det |
| 6 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 draw | mark |
| 9 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 things | acl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 drawing | punct |
| 11 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 helps | csubj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hand | amod |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drawing | obj |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 drawing | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 starting | punct |
| 17 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 drawing | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 shapes | case |
| 19 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shapes | amod |
| 20 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 starting | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 helps | punct |
| 22 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Hands | one | of the hardest things | tree rules | |||
| 2 | draw | to-infinitive | Hands not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | draw | gerund | your own hand | often property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | start | gerund | with simple shapes | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with shape=Subeventuality | |||||
| 5 | help | present | drawing | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:14.
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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