--- title: Music practice and ball games — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Music practice and ball games», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Learning an instrument is like building a wall brick by brick: a little practice every day works better than one long session a week. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Music practice and ball games # Music practice and ball games Lesson 246 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 22 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/0/) — Learning an instrument is like building a wall brick by brick: a little practice every day works better than one long session a week. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/1/) — When a piece has a hard bar (a short part of the music), you play it slowly until it is right, because playing a mistake fast many times turns it into a habit. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/2/) — Instruments are delicate and often expensive: you carry them in their case, keep them out of hot cars and ask before touching one in a shop. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/3/) — In ball games, safety and fairness come first: protect your face from a flying ball, throw low in dodgeball, and let everybody have a turn. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/4/) — A boy in Perth practises his recorder for fifteen minutes every evening, and after a month he plays better than his friend who practised for two hours on Sundays. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/5/) — Short daily practice builds musical skill faster than one long practice a week. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/6/) — A hard bar is practised slowly until it is right, because fast mistakes become a habit. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/7/) — Mouthpieces of trumpets and recorders are cleaned and not shared without cleaning, because germs pass between mouths. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/8/) — Instruments are carried in their cases and never left in a hot car, where they can crack. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/9/) — Drums are practised at agreed times with a practice pad or quiet sticks, so family and neighbours are not disturbed. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/10/) — When someone performs, you listen quietly and clap at the end, because it shows respect for their effort. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/12/) — You ask before touching instruments in a music shop, because they are expensive and belong to the shop. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/13/) — Piano keys are pressed gently, because banging them can damage the keys and the hammers inside. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/14/) — When a ball flies at your face, you put your hands up and turn your head. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/15/) — In dodgeball you throw below the shoulders and never aim at heads. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/16/) — You never kick or throw a ball at someone who is not ready, because it hurts and starts fights. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/17/) — A ball stuck on a roof is a job for an adult; you never climb onto a roof. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/18/) — You keep a safe distance from someone swinging a racket. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/19/) — A boy in New York practised the drums for hours every day without ear protection; after a few months he had ringing in his ears that would not go away. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/20/) — A girl in Australia batted in cricket practice without a helmet; the ball hit her face, broke her nose and chipped two teeth. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/22/) — A hard ball moves fast enough to break a nose, a tooth or a cheekbone, which is why helmets, face guards and mouth guards are worn. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/23/) — For a nosebleed, sit down, lean forward, pinch the soft part of the nose and tell an adult; do not tip your head back. - ← previous: [Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/) - next →: [Running games and the playground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/247-running-games-and-playground/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)