Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games, sentence 15
Practising a musical instrument a little every day builds skill faster than a lot once a week.
Who acts: Practising · What happens: practise, build · To what, where: musical instrument, little
This is a sentence of the lesson «Console games, building, crafts, music 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 (Practising), 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 | Practising | practise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 builds | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 instrument | det |
| 3 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 instrument | amod |
| 4 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Practising | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 builds | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Practising | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 builds | obj |
| 11 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 builds | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 lot | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lot | det |
| 14 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 faster | obl |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 builds | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 week | det |
| 17 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 once | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 builds | 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 | practise | gerund | a musical instrument | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | present | Practising | a little | once property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skill=Product |
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:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.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): 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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