Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear, sentence 18
A girl in Ireland gave up the piano after one hard week; a year later she wished she had kept going, because her friend who practised a little every day now played well.
Who acts: girl, friend · What happens: give up, wish, keep, go, practise, play · To what, where: piano · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl, friend), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ireland | case |
| 4 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 gave | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 piano | det |
| 8 | piano | piano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 week | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 week | nummod |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 week | amod |
| 12 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 wished | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 year | det |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 later | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 wished | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wished | nsubj |
| 18 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | parataxis |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kept | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 kept | aux |
| 21 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 wished | ccomp |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 kept | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 played | punct |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 34 played | mark |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 friend | nmod:poss |
| 26 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 played | nsubj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 practised | nsubj |
| 28 | practised | practise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 friend | acl:relcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 little | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 day | amod |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 day | det |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 practised | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 played | advmod |
| 34 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wished | advcl |
| 35 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 played | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | a girl in Ireland | the piano | week | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piano=Source | |||
| 2 | wish | past | girl | late property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | past · perfect | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | gerund | girl not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | practise | past | girl's friend | day | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | play | past | girl's friend | now | well property | vn performance-26.7-1 «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:305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear.lesson:18.
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, 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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