Younger children, losing and practising, sentence 15
You listen to the coach, ask questions and try the advice, because coaches help you improve.
Who acts: You, coaches · What happens: listen, ask, try, help, improve · To what, where: questions, advice, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Younger children, losing and practising» 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 (You, coaches), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 listen | nsubj |
| 2 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 coach | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coach | det |
| 5 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 listen | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 listen | conj |
| 8 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ask | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 try | cc |
| 10 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 listen | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 advice | det |
| 12 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 try | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 improve | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 help | mark |
| 15 | coaches | coach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 help | nsubj |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 try | advcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 help | obj |
| 18 | improve | improve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 help | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | present | You | to the coach | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to coach=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | You not said here | questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | try | infinitive | You not said here | the advice | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | help | present | coaches | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | improve | infinitive | you not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:everyday:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.lesson:15.
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, R3-conj-first ×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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