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title: Ericsson himself said 10,000 was not a magic rule and that the quali… — Practising when you would rather not · tree and pragmatics
description: Ericsson himself said 10,000 was not a magic rule and that the quality of practice mattered more than the count. Who acts: Ericsson, 10,000, quality. A sentence of the lesson «Practising when you would rather not» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Practising when you would rather not, sentence 10

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Ericsson himself said 10,000 was not a magic rule and that the quality of practice mattered more than the count.

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**Who acts:** Ericsson, 10,000, quality · **What happens:** say, not be, matter · **To what, where:** magic rule · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ericsson, 10,000, quality), 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:10
# text = Ericsson himself said 10,000 was not a magic rule and that the quality of practice mattered more than the count.
# 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): no change
1	Ericsson	Ericsson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	mattered	matter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ericsson  Ericsson |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | 10,000 | a magic rule |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **matter** | past | the quality of practice |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:arts:003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.lesson:10`.

**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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