Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 8
Playing a whole piece over and over repeats the same mistake; musicians stop at the tricky bar (a small section of the music), play it slowly and correctly, then join it back in.
Who acts: Playing, musicians · What happens: play, repeat, stop, join back, section · To what, where: whole piece, same mistake, tricky bar, mistake, music
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 (Playing, musicians), 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 | Playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 repeats | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 piece | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 piece | amod |
| 4 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Playing | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 1 Playing | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 repeats | cc |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 over | conj |
| 8 | repeats | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mistake | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mistake | amod |
| 11 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 repeats | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 stop | punct |
| 13 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stop | nsubj |
| 14 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 repeats | parataxis |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 bar | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bar | det |
| 17 | tricky | tricky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bar | amod |
| 18 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stop | obl |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 section | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 section | det |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 section | amod |
| 22 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bar | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 music | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 music | det |
| 25 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 section | nmod |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 section | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 play | punct |
| 28 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 stop | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 play | obj |
| 30 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 28 play | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 correctly | cc |
| 32 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 30 slowly | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 join | punct |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 join | advmod |
| 35 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 play | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 join | obj |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 35 join | advmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADV | _ | 35 join | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 repeats | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | a whole piece | over property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 2 | repeat | present | Playing | the same mistake | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | stop | present | musicians | the tricky bar | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bar=Location | ||||
| 4 | play | infinitive | musicians not said here | mistake | slowly property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | join back | infinitive | musicians not said here | mistake | then | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 6 | section | the music | nom section «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:8.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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