Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 7

The "10,000 hours" idea came from a popular book; the researcher behind it, Anders Ericsson, said there is no magic number and the kind of practice matters as much as the hours.

Who acts: hours idea, researcher, magic number, kind · What happens: come, say, be, matter · To what, where: popular book · 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 (hours idea, researcher, magic number, kind), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 idea	det
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hours	punct
3	10,000	10000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 hours	nummod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 idea	compound
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hours	punct
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 book	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 book	det
10	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 book	amod
11	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 researcher	det
14	researcher	researcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 researcher	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Anders	punct
18	Anders	Anders	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 researcher	appos
19	Ericsson	Ericsson	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Anders	flat
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 is	expl
23	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 said	ccomp
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 number	det
25	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 number	compound
26	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 is	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 matters	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 kind	det
29	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 matters	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 practice	case
31	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kind	nmod
32	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 is	conj
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 much	advmod
34	much	much	ADV	_	32 matters	advmod
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 hours	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hours	det
37	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 matters	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	the hours idea	a popular book		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from book=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the researcher behind idea			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	present	no magic number	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	matter	present	the kind of practice		hour	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:7.

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): no change. 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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