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title: Short, regular practice beats long battles. — Tricky words and common exception words · tree and pragmatics
description: Short, regular practice beats long battles. Who acts: regular practice. A sentence of the lesson «Tricky words and common exception words» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 12

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Short, regular practice beats long battles.

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**Who acts:** regular practice · **What happens:** beat · **To what, where:** long battles

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tricky words and common exception words» of the english 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 (regular practice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:12
# text = Short, regular practice beats long battles.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod
4	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound
5	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **beat** | present | regular practice | long battles |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location battle=Theme |

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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:english:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:12`.

**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, 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/).

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