Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills, sentence 19
Skill in maths grows with practice like any other skill, and believing you can improve helps you keep trying.
Who acts: Skill, you, believing · What happens: grow, believe, improve, help, keep, try · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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 (Skill, you, believing), 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 | Skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 maths | case |
| 3 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Skill | nmod |
| 4 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 practice | case |
| 6 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | obl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 skill | case |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 skill | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 skill | amod |
| 10 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 practice | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 helps | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 helps | cc |
| 13 | believing | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 helps | csubj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 improve | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 improve | aux |
| 16 | improve | improve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 believing | ccomp |
| 17 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grows | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 helps | obj |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 helps | xcomp |
| 20 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 keep | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Skill in maths | with practice like any other skill | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | believe | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | improve | can | you | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | help | present | believing | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | keep | present | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | try | gerund | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.lesson:19.
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. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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