--- title: Nearly everyone is bad for the first weeks and finds practice boring… — Practising when you would rather not · tree and pragmatics description: Nearly everyone is bad for the first weeks and finds practice boring sometimes, even professionals; and pain is a warning sign, so take breaks and stop if it hurts. Who acts: everyone, pain. 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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 (everyone, pain), 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:4 # text = Nearly everyone is bad for the first weeks and finds practice boring sometimes, even professionals; and pain is a warning sign, so take breaks and stop if it hurts. # 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 ×2 1 Nearly nearly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 2 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 8 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 boring boring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod 13 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 10 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 15 even even ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 professionals professional NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 27 breaks break NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 33 . . 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 | **is** | present | everyone | | | | week | bad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | present | everyone *not said here* | practice | | | | professionals *obl*; boring, sometimes *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent practice=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | present | pain | a warning sign | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | infinitive | | breaks | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme | | 5 | **stop** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **hurt** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | pain | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | 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:4`. **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 ×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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/3/) - next →: [Practising when you would rather not, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/)