--- title: A girl in Ireland gave up the piano after one hard week; a year late… — Catch and release, practising well and sharing s… · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Ireland gave up the piano after one hard week; a year later she wished she had kept going, because her friend who practised a little every day now played well. Who acts: girl, friend. 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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 (girl, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear.lesson:18 # text = A girl in Ireland gave up the piano after one hard week; a year later she wished she had kept going, because her friend who practised a little every day now played well. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 piano piano NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 11 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl:unmarked 16 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 ccomp _ _ 22 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 practised practise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 34 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 35 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give up** | past | a girl in Ireland | the piano | | | week | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piano=Source | | 2 | **wish** | past | girl | | | | | late *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | past · perfect | girl | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | gerund | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **practise** | past | girl's friend | | | | day | | tree rules | | 6 | **play** | past | girl's friend | | | | now | well *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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:everyday:305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear.lesson:18`. **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, 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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