The kid who is always on the bench, sentence 2
Skill grows from many small sessions: Lucas in Ontario does 20 minutes of keepy-uppies every day, and Anaya in London asks her coach what to work on and passes against the garden wall, until the brain wires the move in.
Who acts: Skill, Lucas, Anaya, brain · What happens: grow, do, ask, work on, pass, wire in · To what, where: coach, garden wall, move
This is a sentence of the lesson «The kid who is always on the bench» 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 (Skill, Lucas, Anaya, brain), 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 | 2 grows | nsubj |
| 2 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 sessions | case |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sessions | amod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sessions | amod |
| 6 | sessions | session | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grows | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lucas | punct |
| 8 | Lucas | Lucas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 does | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Ontario | case |
| 10 | Ontario | Ontario | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lucas | nmod |
| 11 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grows | parataxis |
| 12 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 minutes | nummod |
| 13 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 does | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 uppies | case |
| 15 | keepy | keepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 uppies | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 keepy | punct |
| 17 | uppies | uppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 minutes | nmod |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 does | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 asks | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 asks | cc |
| 22 | Anaya | Anaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 asks | nsubj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 London | case |
| 24 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Anaya | nmod |
| 25 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grows | conj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 coach | nmod:poss |
| 27 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asks | obj |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 work | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 work | mark |
| 30 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 coach | acl:relcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 work | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 passes | cc |
| 33 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 asks | conj |
| 34 | against | against | ADP | _ | 37 wall | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 wall | det |
| 36 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wall | compound |
| 37 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 passes | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 wires | punct |
| 39 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 42 wires | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 brain | det |
| 41 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 wires | nsubj |
| 42 | wires | wire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 passes | advcl |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 move | det |
| 44 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 wires | obj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 wires | compound:prt |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | from many small sessions | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from session=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Lucas in Ontario | day; minute | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | Anaya in London | Anaya's coach | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coach=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | work on | to-infinitive | Anaya in London not said here | Anaya's coach | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent what=Material | ||||
| 5 | pass | present | Anaya in London not said here | the garden wall | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against wall=Location | ||||
| 6 | wire in | present | the brain | the move | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Patient |
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:070-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench.lesson:2.
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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