--- title: People start with different strengths, but research suggests practic… — Practising when you would rather not · tree and pragmatics description: People start with different strengths, but research suggests practice explains a lot of how good people become. Who acts: People, research, practice, good people. 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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 (People, research, practice, good people), 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:13 # text = People start with different strengths, but research suggests practice explains a lot of how good people become. # 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 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 strengths strength NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 research research NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 suggests suggest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 16 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | People | | | | | with different strengths | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with strength=Subeventuality | | 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | research | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | practice | a lot | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic | | 4 | **become** | present | good people | a lot *not said here* | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient lot=Result | 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:13`. **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. **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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/12/) - next →: [Practising when you would rather not, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/)