Chores you skipped, sentence 17
Practice is often boring, but it is what makes you better.
Who acts: Practice · What happens: be, make · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Chores you skipped» 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), 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 | Practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boring | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 boring | cop |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 boring | advmod |
| 4 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 makes | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 what | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | cop |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 makes | nsubj |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 boring | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 makes | obj |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 makes | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 boring | 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 | boring, often property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Practice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | present | you | good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product |
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:350-chores-you-skipped.lesson:17.
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): 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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