Promises to family, sentence 21
Changing a habit, such as teasing, usually takes many tries.
Who acts: Changing · What happens: change, take · To what, where: habit, many tries
This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises to family» 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 (Changing), 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 | Changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 takes | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 habit | det |
| 3 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Changing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 teasing | punct |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 7 teasing | case |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 such | fixed |
| 7 | teasing | teasing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 habit | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 takes | punct |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 takes | advmod |
| 10 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tries | amod |
| 12 | tries | try | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 takes | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | gerund | a habit | such teasing | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | present | Changing | many tries | usually property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent try=Theme |
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.
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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 ×2. 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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