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title: Most musicians say the dull part of practice is where skills grow; s… — Practising when you would rather not · tree and pragmatics
description: Most musicians say the dull part of practice is where skills grow; short sessions, small goals and a fun piece at the end help. Who acts: Most musicians, dull part, short sessions. A sentence of the lesson «Practising when you would rather not» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Practising when you would rather not, sentence 7

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Most musicians say the dull part of practice is where skills grow; short sessions, small goals and a fun piece at the end help.

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**Who acts:** Most musicians, dull part, short sessions · **What happens:** say, be, help · **To what, where:** end · **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 (Most musicians, dull part, short sessions), 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:7
# text = Most musicians say the dull part of practice is where skills grow; short sessions, small goals and a fun piece at the end help.
# 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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	musicians	musician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
11	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sessions	session	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	goals	goal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
26	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Most musicians |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | the dull part of practice |  |  |  |  | grow *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** | present | short sessions and small goals and a fun piece |  |  |  | at the end |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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.

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