--- title: People start with different strengths, but skills in art, music and… — Being bad at something and keeping going · tree and pragmatics description: People start with different strengths, but skills in art, music and sport grow mainly through practice, and calling someone "born talented" can make them stop trying. Who acts: People, skills, calling. 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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 (People, skills, calling), 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:15 # text = People start with different strengths, but skills in art, music and sport grow mainly through practice, and calling someone "born talented" can make them stop trying. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 strengths strength NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 skills skill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sport sport NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 15 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 through through ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 21 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 csubj _ _ 22 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 21 obj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 24 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 xcomp _ _ 25 talented talented ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:conj 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | People | | | | | with different strengths | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with strength=Subeventuality | | 2 | **grow** | present | skills in art and music and sport | | | practice | | mainly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through practice=Location | | 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | gerund | | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **bear** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | talented *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **make** | can | calling | people | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stop** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **try** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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