--- title: Professional performers make mistakes on stage too; the skill is to… — Being bad at something and keeping going · tree and pragmatics description: Professional performers make mistakes on stage too; the skill is to keep going, and a small slip is often not noticed if the music does not stop. Who acts: Professional performers, skill, music. 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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 (Professional performers, skill, music), 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:9 # text = Professional performers make mistakes on stage too; the skill is to keep going, and a small slip is often not noticed if the music does not stop. # 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): no change 1 Professional professional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 performers performer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 14 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 slip slip NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 21 often often ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 noticed notice VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 30 . . 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 | **make** | present | Professional performers | mistakes | | stage | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | | 2 | **is** | present | the skill | | | | | keep *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | gerund | the skill *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **notice** | present · passive | | a small slip | | | | often *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | the music | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:9`. **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): no change. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/8/) - next →: [Being bad at something and keeping going, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/)