Famous athletes and what being a professional takes, sentence 6
The «10,000 hours» idea was made popular by a book; practice matters a lot, but there is no magic number, and coaching, rest and enjoyment matter too.
Who acts: book, practice, magic number · What happens: make, matter, be · To what, where: hours idea, lot, coaching
This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous athletes and what being a professional takes» of the medicine 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 (book, practice, magic number), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 idea | det |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 hours | punct |
| 3 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 hours | nummod |
| 4 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 idea | compound |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 hours | punct |
| 6 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 made | xcomp |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 book | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 book | det |
| 12 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl:agent |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 14 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 matters | nsubj |
| 15 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lot | det |
| 17 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 matters | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 is | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | _ | 21 is | expl |
| 21 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 matters | conj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 number | det |
| 23 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 number | compound |
| 24 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 is | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 coaching | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 matter | cc |
| 27 | coaching | coaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 matter | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 rest | punct |
| 29 | rest | rest | NOUN | _ | 27 coaching | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 enjoyment | cc |
| 31 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 coaching | conj |
| 32 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | conj |
| 33 | too | too | ADV | _ | 32 matter | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | a book | the hours idea | popular property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | |||
| 2 | matter | present | practice | a lot | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | be | present | no magic number | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | matter | present | a book not said here | coaching and rest and enjoyment | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:medicine:063-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes.lesson:6.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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