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title: Practising is how your fingers and brain learn new moves, but not al… — Practising when you would rather not · tree and pragmatics
description: Practising is how your fingers and brain learn new moves, but not all practice is equal: twenty minutes fixing one hard bit can do more than an hour of playing what you already know. Who acts: fingers, practice, hour, you. A sentence of the lesson «Practising when you would rather not» of the arts c
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# Practising when you would rather not, sentence 0

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Practising is how your fingers and brain learn new moves, but not all practice is equal: twenty minutes fixing one hard bit can do more than an hour of playing what you already know.

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**Who acts:** fingers, practice, hour, you · **What happens:** practise, be, not be, fix, do, play · **To what, where:** one hard bit, hour

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Practising when you would rather not» of the arts 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 (fingers, practice, hour, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.lesson:0
# text = Practising is how your fingers and brain learn new moves, but not all practice is equal: twenty minutes fixing one hard bit can do more than an hour of playing what you already know.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.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 ×2
1	Practising	practise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	moves	move	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	fixing	fix	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	30	advmod	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
32	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:nmod
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	obj	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	already	already	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **practise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | your fingers and brain |  |  |  |  | learn *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | all practice |  |  |  |  | equal *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fix** | gerund | all practice *not said here* | one hard bit |  |  | minute |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | can | all practice *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **play** | gerund | a hour *not said here* | a hour |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 7 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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**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 ×2. **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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