--- title: The "10,000 hours" idea came from a popular book; the researcher beh… — Being bad at something and keeping going · tree and pragmatics description: The "10,000 hours" idea came from a popular book; the researcher behind it, Anders Ericsson, said there is no magic number and the kind of practice matters as much as the hours. Who acts: hours idea, researcher, magic number, kind. 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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 (hours idea, researcher, magic number, kind), 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:7 # text = The "10,000 hours" idea came from a popular book; the researcher behind it, Anders Ericsson, said there is no magic number and the kind of practice matters as much as the 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): no change 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 7 nsubj _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 researcher researcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 15 behind behind ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Anders Anders PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 19 Ericsson Ericsson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 22 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 23 expl _ _ 23 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 24 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 26 det _ _ 25 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 much much ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the hours idea | | | a popular book | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from book=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the researcher behind idea | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **be** | present | no magic number | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **matter** | present | the kind of practice | | | | hour | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:7`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Being bad at something and keeping going, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/6/) - next →: [Being bad at something and keeping going, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/)