Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear, sentence 20
Most people improve slowly, and giving up at the hardest point means losing what they have already learned.
Who acts: Most people, giving · What happens: improve, give up, mean, lose, learn · To what, where: hardest point, people · 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 (Most people, giving), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 improve | nsubj |
| 3 | improve | improve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 improve | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 means | cc |
| 7 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 means | csubj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 giving | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 point | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 point | det |
| 11 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 point | amod |
| 12 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 giving | obl |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 improve | conj |
| 14 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 means | xcomp |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 losing | obj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 learned | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 learned | aux |
| 18 | already | already | ADV | _ | 19 learned | advmod |
| 19 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 improve | 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 | improve | present | Most people | slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give up | gerund | the hardest point | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | giving | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | lose not said to happen | gerund | giving not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | learn | present · perfect · passive | people | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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:20.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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