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title: Homework is practice, like football training: if a bot does your kee… — The essay the teacher spotted · tree and pragmatics
description: Homework is practice, like football training: if a bot does your keepy-uppies, you don't get better at keepy-uppies. Who acts: Homework, bot, you. A sentence of the lesson «The essay the teacher spotted» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The essay the teacher spotted, sentence 3

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Homework is practice, like football training: if a bot does your keepy-uppies, you don't get better at keepy-uppies.

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**Who acts:** Homework, bot, you · **What happens:** be, do, not get · **To what, where:** practice, keepy uppies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The essay the teacher spotted» of the ai 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 (Homework, bot, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.lesson:3
# text = Homework is practice, like football training: if a bot does your keepy-uppies, you don't get better at keepy-uppies.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	training	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:advcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	keepy	keepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	uppies	uppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
22	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	xcomp	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	keepy	keepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	uppies	uppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Homework | practice |  |  |  | like football training | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a bot | your keepy uppies |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uppy=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **get** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:ai:009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.lesson:3`.

**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, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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