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title: A hard bar is practised slowly until it is right, because fast mista… — Music practice and ball games · tree and pragmatics
description: A hard bar is practised slowly until it is right, because fast mistakes become a habit. Who acts: bar, fast mistakes. 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 6

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A hard bar is practised slowly until it is right, because fast mistakes become a habit.

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**Who acts:** bar, fast mistakes · **What happens:** practise, be, become · **To what, where:** hard bar, 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 (bar, fast mistakes), 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:6
# text = A hard bar is practised slowly until it is right, because fast mistakes become 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	practised	practise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	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 · passive |  | a hard bar |  |  |  | slowly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | bar |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | present | fast mistakes | a habit |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:6`.

**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/).

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