Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 3
Rest counts too: sleep helps your brain lock in a new movement, so a dance spin that failed tonight often works better tomorrow.
Who acts: Rest, sleep, brain, dance spin · What happens: count, help, lock, fail, work · To what, where: new movement
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 (Rest, sleep, brain, dance spin), 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 | Rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 counts | nsubj |
| 2 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 works | parataxis |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 counts | advmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 helps | punct |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 helps | nsubj |
| 6 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 counts | parataxis |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brain | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lock | nsubj |
| 9 | lock | lock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 helps | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 movement | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 movement | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 movement | amod |
| 13 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lock | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spin | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 spin | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 spin | det |
| 17 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spin | compound |
| 18 | spin | spin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 works | nsubj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 failed | nsubj |
| 20 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 spin | acl:relcl |
| 21 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 failed | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | often | often | ADV | _ | 23 works | advmod |
| 23 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 works | advmod |
| 25 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 works | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 counts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | Rest | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | help | present | sleep | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lock | infinitive | your brain | a new movement | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fail | past | a dance spin | tonight | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | work | present | a dance spin | tomorrow | often, well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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:3.
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. 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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