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title: Giving a talk is a skill, like riding a bike: wobbly at first, smoot… — Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell · tree and pragmatics
description: Giving a talk is a skill, like riding a bike: wobbly at first, smoother with every practice. Who acts: Giving. A sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 0

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Giving a talk is a skill, like riding a bike: wobbly at first, smoother with every practice.

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**Who acts:** Giving · **What happens:** give, be, ride · **To what, where:** talk, skill, bike

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» of the english 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 (Giving), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:0
# text = Giving a talk is a skill, like riding a bike: wobbly at first, smoother with every practice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.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	Giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	smoother	smoother	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund |  | a talk |  |  |  | with every practice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Giving | a skill |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ride** | gerund | Giving *not said here* | a bike |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Theme |

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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.

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**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:english:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.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): 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/).

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