Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear, sentence 12
When practice is frustrating, break the skill into small steps and practise one at a time.
Who acts: practice, you · What happens: be, break, practise · To what, where: skill, one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear» 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 (practice, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 frustrating | mark |
| 2 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 frustrating | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 frustrating | cop |
| 4 | frustrating | frustrating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 break | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 break | punct |
| 6 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 skill | det |
| 8 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 break | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 steps | case |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 steps | amod |
| 11 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 break | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 practise | cc |
| 13 | practise | practise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 break | conj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 practise | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 practise | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 break | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | practice | frustrating property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | imperative | you not said here | the skill | into small steps result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent skill=Patient into step=Result | |||
| 3 | practise | infinitive | you not said here | one | time | tree rules |
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:305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear.lesson:12.
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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