--- title: Skills grow with practice: ten minutes every day builds a skill much… — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics description: Skills grow with practice: ten minutes every day builds a skill much faster than one long session a week, and reviewing something a few days later helps the memory last. Who acts: Skills, ten minutes, memory. 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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, ten minutes, memory), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:0 # text = Skills grow with practice: ten minutes every day builds a skill much faster than one long session a week, and reviewing something a few days later helps the memory last. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 260-learning-skills-and-coins.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 ×3, 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 _ 4 case _ _ 4 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 6 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod:unmarked 8 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nsubj 10 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 much much ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 session session NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:unmarked _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 reviewing review VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 24 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 obj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod 29 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 33 . . 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 practice | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **build** | present | ten minutes every day | a skill | | | | fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skill=Product | | 3 | **review** | gerund | Skills *not said here* | something | | | | late *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 4 | **help** | present | Skills *not said here* | the memory | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent memory=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **last** | infinitive | the memory *not said here* | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:0`. **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): R5-strong ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [The library and books, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/259-library-and-books/19/) - next →: [Learning a skill, and coins and notes, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/)