Younger children, losing and practising, sentence 2

Skills grow with regular short practice; when something is frustrating, you break it into small steps, and you try a professional's tricky move only slowly, safely and with a coach.

Who acts: Skills, something, you, professional · What happens: grow, be, break, try, move · To what, where: practice, tricky move

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 (Skills, something, you, professional), 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	Skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 practice	case
4	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 practice	amod
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 practice	amod
6	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 frustrating	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 frustrating	advmod
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 frustrating	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 frustrating	cop
11	frustrating	frustrating	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grow	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 break	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 break	nsubj
14	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 frustrating	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 break	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 steps	case
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 steps	amod
18	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 break	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 try	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 try	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 try	nsubj
22	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 break	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 professional	det
24	professional	professional	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 move	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 professional	case
26	tricky	tricky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 move	amod
27	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 try	obj
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 slowly	advmod
29	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	22 try	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 safely	punct
31	safely	safely	ADV	_	22 try	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 coach	cc
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 coach	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 coach	det
35	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 safely	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Skills		with regular short practice	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	something		frustrating property	tree rules
3	break	present	you	practice	into small steps result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into step=Result
4	try	present	you	a professional's tricky move	safely, slowly property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Eventuality
5	move		a professional			nom move «act intransitive»: poss=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:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.lesson:2.

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): R5-strong ×2, 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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