Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games, sentence 5

Playing a little every day trains your fingers and brain better than one long session a week, and practising mistakes fast only makes them a habit.

Who acts: Playing · What happens: play, train, practise, make · To what, where: little, fingers, mistakes

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 (Playing), 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	Playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 trains	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Playing	obj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Playing	obl:unmarked
6	trains	train	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fingers	nmod:poss
8	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trains	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 brain	cc
10	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fingers	conj
11	better	good	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 trains	advmod
12	than	than	ADP	_	15 session	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 session	nummod
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 session	amod
15	session	session	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 better	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 week	det
17	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 session	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 practising	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 practising	cc
20	practising	practise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Playing	conj
21	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 practising	obj
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 practising	advmod
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 makes	advmod
24	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trains	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 makes	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 habit	det
27	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 makes	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trains	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund		a little	day		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme
2	train	present	Playing	your fingers and brain		good property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme
3	practise	gerund		mistakes		fast property	tree rules
4	make	present	Playing not said here	fingers = finger			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=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:5.

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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