Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear, sentence 3
Breaking a hard skill into small steps makes each step possible, and the small steps add up.
Who acts: Breaking, small steps · What happens: break, make, add up · To what, where: hard skill, step
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 (Breaking, small steps), 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 | Breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 makes | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 skill | det |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 skill | amod |
| 4 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Breaking | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 steps | case |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 steps | amod |
| 7 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Breaking | obl |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 step | det |
| 10 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | obj |
| 11 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 add | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 add | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 steps | det |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 steps | amod |
| 16 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 add | nsubj |
| 17 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 makes | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 add | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 makes | 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 | break | gerund | a hard skill | into small steps result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent skill=Patient into step=Result | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Breaking | each step | possible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset step=Product | |||
| 3 | add up speech: assert | present | the small steps | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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:3.
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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