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title: A boy in Perth practises his recorder for fifteen minutes every even… — Music practice and ball games · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: boy, friend. A sentence of the lesson «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Music practice and ball games, sentence 4

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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.

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**Who acts:** boy, friend · **What happens:** practise, play · **To what, where:** recorder

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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 (boy, friend), 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:4
# text = 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.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Perth	Perth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	practises	practise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	recorder	recorder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	practised	practise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod
31	.	.	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 | **practise** | present | a boy in Perth | boy's recorder |  |  | evening; minute |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | present | boy |  |  |  | month | well *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **practise** | past | boy's friend |  |  |  | hour; sunday |  | tree rules |

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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:4`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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/).

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