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title: The "10,000 hours" idea was made famous by the writer Malcolm Gladwe… — Practising when you would rather not · tree and pragmatics
description: The "10,000 hours" idea was made famous by the writer Malcolm Gladwell, based on research by the psychologist Anders Ericsson. Who acts: writer, psychologist. A sentence of the lesson «Practising when you would rather not» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Practising when you would rather not, sentence 9

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The "10,000 hours" idea was made famous by the writer Malcolm Gladwell, based on research by the psychologist Anders Ericsson.

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**Who acts:** writer, psychologist · **What happens:** make, base, research · **To what, where:** hours idea, research

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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 (writer, psychologist), 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:9
# text = The "10,000 hours" idea was made famous by the writer Malcolm Gladwell, based on research by the psychologist Anders Ericsson.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	Malcolm	Malcolm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	Gladwell	Gladwell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	psychologist	psychologist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl
22	Anders	Anders	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
23	Ericsson	Ericsson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive | the writer | the hours idea |  |  |  | famous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 2 | **base** | participle | the writer *not said here* |  |  | research by the psychologist |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on research=Source |
| 3 | **research** |  | the psychologist |  |  |  |  |  | nom research «act transitive»: by=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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**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:9`.

**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. **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/).

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