--- title: Most people improve slowly, and giving up at the hardest point means… — Catch and release, practising well and sharing s… · tree and pragmatics description: Most people improve slowly, and giving up at the hardest point means losing what they have already learned. Who acts: Most people, giving. 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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 (Most people, giving), 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:20 # text = Most people improve slowly, and giving up at the hardest point means losing what they have already learned. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 improve improve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 7 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 9 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 hardest hard ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:ccomp 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obj _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 already already ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **improve** | present | Most people | | | | | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **give up** | gerund | | | | the hardest point | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | giving | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **lose** *not said to happen* | gerund | giving *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 5 | **learn** | present · perfect · passive | | people | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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:20`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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