Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 15

People start with different strengths, but skills in art, music and sport grow mainly through practice, and calling someone "born talented" can make them stop trying.

Who acts: People, skills, calling · What happens: start, grow, call, bear, make, stop · To what, where: practice, someone, people · 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 (People, skills, calling), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 start	nsubj
2	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 strengths	case
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 strengths	amod
5	strengths	strength	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 start	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grow	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 skills	cc
8	skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grow	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 art	case
10	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skills	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 music	punct
12	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 art	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sport	cc
14	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 art	conj
15	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 start	conj
16	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	15 grow	advmod
17	through	through	ADP	_	18 practice	case
18	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grow	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 make	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 make	cc
21	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 make	csubj
22	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 calling	obj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 born	punct
24	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 calling	xcomp
25	talented	talented	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 born	xcomp
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 born	punct
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 make	aux
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 grow	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 make	obj
30	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 make	xcomp
31	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 stop	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 start	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	present	People			with different strengths	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with strength=Subeventuality
2	grow	present	skills in art and music and sport		practice	mainly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through practice=Location
3	call speech: assert	gerund		someone			tree rules
4	bear in a quote	participle				talented property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	make	can	calling	people			tree rules
6	stop	infinitive	people not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	try	gerund	people not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:15.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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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