Music practice and ball games, sentence 0
Learning an instrument is like building a wall brick by brick: a little practice every day works better than one long session a week.
Who acts: Learning, little practice · What happens: learn, be, work · To what, where: instrument
This is a sentence of the lesson «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday 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 (Learning, little practice), 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 | Learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 building | csubj |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instrument | det |
| 3 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Learning | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 building | cop |
| 5 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 6 building | mark |
| 6 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 brick | det |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brick | compound |
| 9 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 building | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 brick | case |
| 11 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 building | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 works | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 practice | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 practice | amod |
| 15 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 works | nsubj |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 practice | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 building | parataxis |
| 19 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 works | advmod |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 session | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 session | nummod |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 session | amod |
| 23 | session | session | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 better | obl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 week | det |
| 25 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 session | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 building | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | gerund | a instrument | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Learning | by brick; build property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | work | present | a little practice every day | 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:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.lesson:0.
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): 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.
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