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title: When a piece has a hard bar (a short part of the music), you play it… — Music practice and ball games · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: piece, you, playing. A sentence of the lesson «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with
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# Music practice and ball games, sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** piece, you, playing · **What happens:** have, play, be, turn · **To what, where:** hard bar, bar, mistake, habit

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday 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 (piece, you, playing), 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:1
# text = 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.
# 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 ×3
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:advcl
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	fast	fast	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
31	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a piece | a hard bar |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Patient |
| 2 | **play** | present | you | bar |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | piece |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **play** | gerund |  | a mistake |  |  | time | fast *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Theme |
| 5 | **turn** | present | playing | mistake |  | a habit |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into habit=Trajectory |

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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:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.lesson:1`.

**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 ×3. **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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