--- title: Everyone is bad at a new skill at first: guitar strings hurt, painti… — Being bad at something and keeping going · tree and pragmatics description: Everyone is bad at a new skill at first: guitar strings hurt, paintings go muddy, the hands you draw look like bunches of bananas, and that is the normal start, not a sign you were "not made for it". Who acts: Everyone, guitar strings, paintings, you. A sentence of the lesson «Being bad at something --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Being bad at something and keeping going](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/) / 0 # Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 0 Everyone is bad at a new skill at first: guitar strings hurt, paintings go muddy, the hands you draw look like bunches of bananas, and that is the normal start, not a sign you were "not made for it". **Who acts:** Everyone, guitar strings, paintings, you, hands, that · **What happens:** be, hurt, go, draw, look, not make · **To what, where:** new skill, hands, normal start, you This is a sentence of the lesson «Being bad at something and keeping going» of the arts 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 (Everyone, guitar strings, paintings, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.lesson:0 # text = Everyone is bad at a new skill at first: guitar strings hurt, paintings go muddy, the hands you draw look like bunches of bananas, and that is the normal start, not a sign you were "not made for it". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 guitar guitar NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 hurt hurt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 paintings painting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 draw draw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 bunches bunch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 bananas banana NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 40 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl:relcl _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct 47 . . 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 | **is** | present | Everyone | | | a new skill | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hurt** | present | guitar strings | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **go** | present | paintings | | | | | muddy *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **draw** | present | you | the hands *not said here* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 5 | **look** | present | the hands | | | | | like bunches of bananas | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **is a** | present | that | the normal start and a sign | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **make** *in a quote* | past · passive | | you | | | | for sign | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for it=Asset | 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:037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [AI pictures and AI music, as reported, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/36-ai-pictures-and-ai-music-as-reported/15/) - next →: [Being bad at something and keeping going, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/)