Learning a skill, and coins and notes, sentence 8
Practical skills, such as tying shoelaces, are learned by practising slowly while an adult shows you step by step.
Who acts: adult · What happens: tie, learn, practise, show · To what, where: Practical skills
This is a sentence of the lesson «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» 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 (adult), 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 | Practical | practical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 skills | amod |
| 2 | skills | skill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 learned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shoelaces | punct |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 7 shoelaces | case |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 such | fixed |
| 6 | tying | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 shoelaces | amod |
| 7 | shoelaces | shoelace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 skills | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 skills | punct |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 learned | aux:pass |
| 10 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 practising | mark |
| 12 | practising | practise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 learned | advcl |
| 13 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 12 practising | advmod |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 shows | mark |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 adult | det |
| 16 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shows | nsubj |
| 17 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 practising | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 step | obj |
| 19 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shows | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 step | case |
| 21 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 step | flat |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | gerund | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | learn | present · passive | Practical skills and tying shoelaces | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | practise | gerund | slowly property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | show | present | a adult | by step | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:8.
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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