--- title: Learning an instrument is like building a wall brick by brick: a lit… — Music practice and ball games · tree and pragmatics description: Learning an instrument is like building a wall brick by brick: a little practice every day works better than one long session a week. Who acts: Learning, little practice. 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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 (Learning, little practice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.lesson:0 # text = Learning an instrument is like building a wall brick by brick: a little practice every day works better than one long session a week. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Learning learn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 instrument instrument NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 like like SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 building build VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:unmarked _ _ 18 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 19 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 20 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 22 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 session session NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:unmarked _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | gerund | | a instrument | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | Learning | | | | | by brick; build *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **work** | present | a little practice every day | | | | | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and need…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/20/) - next →: [Music practice and ball games, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/)