Taking too much, sentence 19
Being happy for someone else's success is a skill that gets easier with practice.
Who acts: skill · What happens: be, get · To what, where: skill
This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» 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), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 happy | cop |
| 2 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 skill | csubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 success | case |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 success | nmod:poss |
| 5 | else | else | ADV | _ | 4 someone | advmod |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 someone | case |
| 7 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happy | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 skill | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 skill | det |
| 10 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 gets | nsubj |
| 12 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 skill | acl:relcl |
| 13 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 gets | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 practice | case |
| 15 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 easier | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 skill | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | for someone's success; happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a skill | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | present | a skill | easy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.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): 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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