--- title: Many teachers suggest giving a new instrument at least a full term b… — Practising when you would rather not · tree and pragmatics description: Many teachers suggest giving a new instrument at least a full term before deciding, and recording yourself shows your progress. Who acts: Many teachers, recording, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many teachers, recording, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.lesson:15 # text = Many teachers suggest giving a new instrument at least a full term before deciding, and recording yourself shows your progress. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.lesson # annotation = 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 ×3 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 suggest suggest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 instrument instrument NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 nmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 13 before before SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 deciding decide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 recording record VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj 18 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 17 obj _ _ 19 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 progress progress NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | Many teachers | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** | gerund | Many teachers *not said here* | a full term | a new instrument | least | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent instrument=Recipient term=Theme at least=Asset | | 3 | **decide** | gerund | Many teachers *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **record** | gerund | | yourself | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | | 5 | **show** | present | recording | your progress | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent progress=Recipient | | 6 | **progress** | | your | | | | | | nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:arts:003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.lesson:15`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Practising when you would rather not, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/14/) - next →: [Practising when you would rather not, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/)