--- title: Playing a whole piece over and over repeats the same mistake; musici… — Being bad at something and keeping going · tree and pragmatics description: Playing a whole piece over and over repeats the same mistake; musicians stop at the tricky bar (a small section of the music), play it slowly and correctly, then join it back in. Who acts: Playing, musicians. A sentence of the lesson «Being bad at something and keeping going» of the arts course of M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Being bad at something and keeping going](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/) / 8 # Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 8 Playing a whole piece over and over repeats the same mistake; musicians stop at the tricky bar (a small section of the music), play it slowly and correctly, then join it back in. **Who acts:** Playing, musicians · **What happens:** play, repeat, stop, join back, section · **To what, where:** whole piece, same mistake, tricky bar, mistake, music 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 (Playing, musicians), 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:8 # text = Playing a whole piece over and over repeats the same mistake; musicians stop at the tricky bar (a small section of the music), play it slowly and correctly, then join it back in. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 over over ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 over over ADV RB _ 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 8 repeats repeat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 musicians musician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 15 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 tricky tricky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 section section NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 28 play play VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:parataxis 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc 32 correctly correctly ADV RB _ 30 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 35 join join VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 back back ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 38 in in ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:advmod 39 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | gerund | | a whole piece | | | | over *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | | 2 | **repeat** | present | Playing | the same mistake | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Eventuality | | 3 | **stop** | present | musicians | | | the tricky bar | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bar=Location | | 4 | **play** | infinitive | musicians *not said here* | mistake | | | | slowly *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **join back** | infinitive | musicians *not said here* | mistake | | | then | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **section** | | | the music | | | | | nom section «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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