Music practice and ball games, sentence 4

A boy in Perth practises his recorder for fifteen minutes every evening, and after a month he plays better than his friend who practised for two hours on Sundays.

Who acts: boy, friend · What happens: practise, play · To what, where: recorder

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 (boy, friend), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 practises	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Perth	case
4	Perth	Perth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	practises	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 recorder	nmod:poss
7	recorder	recorder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 practises	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 minutes	case
9	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 minutes	nummod
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 practises	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 evening	det
12	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 practises	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 plays	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 plays	cc
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 month	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 month	det
17	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 plays	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 plays	nsubj
19	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 practises	conj
20	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 plays	advmod
21	than	than	ADP	_	23 friend	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 friend	nmod:poss
23	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 better	obl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 practised	nsubj
25	practised	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 friend	acl:relcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 hours	case
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 hours	nummod
28	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 practised	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 Sundays	case
30	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 practised	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 practises	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	practise	present	a boy in Perth	boy's recorder	evening; minute		tree rules
2	play	present	boy		month	well property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	practise	past	boy's friend		hour; sunday		tree rules

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:4.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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