Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 9
Professional performers make mistakes on stage too; the skill is to keep going, and a small slip is often not noticed if the music does not stop.
Who acts: Professional performers, skill, music · What happens: make, be, go, not notice, not stop · To what, where: mistakes, stage, small slip
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 (Professional performers, skill, music), 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 | Professional | professional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 performers | amod |
| 2 | performers | performer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 stage | case |
| 6 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 make | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 skill | det |
| 10 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 keep | cop |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 keep | mark |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | parataxis |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 keep | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 noticed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 noticed | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 slip | det |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 slip | amod |
| 19 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 noticed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 noticed | aux:pass |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 23 noticed | advmod |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 noticed | advmod |
| 23 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 going | conj |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 stop | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 music | det |
| 26 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stop | nsubj |
| 27 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 stop | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 stop | advmod |
| 29 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 noticed | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Professional performers | mistakes | stage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | |||
| 2 | is | present | the skill | keep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | the skill not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not notice | present · passive | a small slip | often property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not stop a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | the music | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:9.
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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