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title: Short daily practice builds musical skill faster than one long pract… — Music practice and ball games · tree and pragmatics
description: Short daily practice builds musical skill faster than one long practice a week. Who acts: Short daily practice. A sentence of the lesson «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Music practice and ball games, sentence 5

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Short daily practice builds musical skill faster than one long practice a week.

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**Who acts:** Short daily practice · **What happens:** build · **To what, where:** musical skill

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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 (Short daily 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:5
# text = Short daily practice builds musical skill faster than one long practice 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): no change
1	Short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **build** | present | Short daily practice | musical skill |  |  |  | than one long practice  a week; fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skill=Product |

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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:5`.

**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): no change. **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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