--- title: Hands are one of the hardest things to draw; drawing your own hand o… — Being bad at something and keeping going · tree and pragmatics description: Hands are one of the hardest things to draw; drawing your own hand often, starting with simple shapes, helps. Who acts: Hands, drawing. 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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 (Hands, drawing), 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:14 # text = Hands are one of the hardest things to draw; drawing your own hand often, starting with simple shapes, helps. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 hardest hard ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 drawing draw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 often often ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:acl 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 . . 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 a** | present | Hands | one | | | | of the hardest things | tree rules | | 2 | **draw** | to-infinitive | Hands *not said here* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **draw** | gerund | | your own hand | | | | often *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 4 | **start** | gerund | | | | | | with simple shapes | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with shape=Subeventuality | | 5 | **help** | present | drawing | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:14`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Being bad at something and keeping going, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/13/) - next →: [Being bad at something and keeping going, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/)