--- title: Skills grow by practice, but the clever kind: find the one hard bit,… — Being bad at something and keeping going · tree and pragmatics description: Skills grow by practice, but the clever kind: find the one hard bit, do it slowly and correctly a few times, then put it back, instead of playing the whole piece and making the same mistake every day. Who acts: Skills. 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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 (Skills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.lesson:1 # text = Skills grow by practice, but the clever kind: find the one hard bit, do it slowly and correctly a few times, then put it back, instead of playing the whole piece and making the same mistake every day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Skills skill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 by by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 find find VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 correctly correctly ADV RB _ 19 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 27 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 instead instead ADV RB _ 33 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:advmod 32 of of SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 conj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 43 det _ _ 43 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | Skills | | | | | by practice | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by practice=Location | | 2 | **find** | infinitive | | the one hard bit | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic | | 3 | **do** | infinitive | | skill | | | | slowly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 4 | **put back** | infinitive | | skill | | | then | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 5 | **play** | gerund | | the whole piece | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | | 6 | **make** | gerund | | the same mistake | | | day | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | 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:037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.lesson:1`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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: [Being bad at something and keeping going, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/0/) - next →: [Being bad at something and keeping going, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/)