--- title: Playing slowly first lets fingers learn the right moves; fast practi… — Practising when you would rather not · tree and pragmatics description: Playing slowly first lets fingers learn the right moves; fast practice full of mistakes trains the mistakes. Who acts: Playing, fingers, fast practice. 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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 (Playing, fingers, fast practice), 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:11 # text = Playing slowly first lets fingers learn the right moves; fast practice full of mistakes trains the mistakes. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 csubj _ _ 2 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ _ 4 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 moves move NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 11 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 trains train VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | gerund | | | | | | slowly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **let** | present | Playing | | | | | first *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **learn** | infinitive | fingers | the right moves | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Topic | | 4 | **train** | present | fast practice | the mistakes | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Theme | 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:arts:003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.lesson:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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/). - ← previous: [Practising when you would rather not, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/10/) - next →: [Practising when you would rather not, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/)