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title: Research shows sleep helps the brain store new movement skills, so p… — Being bad at something and keeping going · tree and pragmatics
description: Research shows sleep helps the brain store new movement skills, so practice plus rest works better than practising tired for hours. Who acts: Research, sleep, practice. A sentence of the lesson «Being bad at something and keeping going» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 12

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Research shows sleep helps the brain store new movement skills, so practice plus rest works better than practising tired for hours.

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**Who acts:** Research, sleep, practice · **What happens:** show, help, store, work, practise · **To what, where:** new movement skills · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being bad at something and keeping going» 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 (Research, sleep, practice), 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:12
# text = Research shows sleep helps the brain store new movement skills, so practice plus rest works better than practising tired for hours.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
6	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	store	store	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod
13	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	practising	practise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
20	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **show** | present | Research |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **help** | present | sleep |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **store** | infinitive | sleep *not said here* | new movement skills |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Theme |
| 4 | **work** | present | practice plus rest |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **practise** | gerund | practice plus rest *not said here* |  |  |  | hour | tired *property* | tree rules |

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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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/).

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