--- title: Skills grow with regular short practice; when something is frustrati… — Younger children, losing and practising · tree and pragmatics description: Skills grow with regular short practice; when something is frustrating, you break it into small steps, and you try a professional's tricky move only slowly, safely and with a coach. Who acts: Skills, something, you, professional. 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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 (Skills, something, you, professional), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.lesson:2 # text = Skills grow with regular short practice; when something is frustrating, you break it into small steps, and you try a professional's tricky move only slowly, safely and with a coach. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Skills skill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 9 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 frustrating frustrating ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 24 professional professional NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 tricky tricky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 safely safely ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | Skills | | | | | with regular short practice | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | something | | | | | frustrating *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **break** | present | you | practice | | | | into small steps *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into step=Result | | 4 | **try** | present | you | a professional's tricky move | | | | safely, slowly *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Eventuality | | 5 | **move** | | a professional | | | | | | nom move «act intransitive»: poss=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. 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