--- title: Switching to a new hobby after giving the old one a fair try is a se… — Being bad at something and keeping going · tree and pragmatics description: Switching to a new hobby after giving the old one a fair try is a sensible choice, and skills like rhythm carry over. Who acts: Switching, skills. 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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 (Switching, skills), 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:13 # text = Switching to a new hobby after giving the old one a fair try is a sensible choice, and skills like rhythm carry over. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Switching switch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj 2 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 hobby hobby NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 after after SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 try try NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 skills skill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 rhythm rhythm NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 over over ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **switch** | gerund | | | | | | to a new hobby *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to hobby=Result | | 2 | **give** | gerund | | a fair try | the old one | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient try=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | Switching | a sensible choice | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **carry over** | present | skills rhythm | | | | | over *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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:037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.lesson:13`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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