--- title: Focused practice means practising with full attention on one goal; w… — Practising when you would rather not · tree and pragmatics description: Focused practice means practising with full attention on one goal; watching the clock while repeating easy parts changes very little. Who acts: Focused practice, watching. 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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 (Focused practice, watching), 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:6 # text = Focused practice means practising with full attention on one goal; watching the clock while repeating easy parts changes very little. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Focused focus VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 practising practise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 ccomp _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 goal goal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 csubj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 while while SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 repeating repeat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 advcl _ _ 17 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 little little ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **focus** | participle | | | | | | | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | Focused practice | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **practise** | gerund | | | | one goal | | with full attention | tree rules | | 4 | **watch** | gerund | | the clock | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Theme | | 5 | **repeat** | gerund | | easy parts | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality | | 6 | **change** | present | watching | | | | | little *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/5/) - next →: [Practising when you would rather not, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/)