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title: Everybody learns at a different speed, so you compare yourself with… — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics
description: Everybody learns at a different speed, so you compare yourself with how you were last month, not with a faster learner, and you give a new club a fair try for several weeks, because the start is the hardest part. Who acts: Everybody, you, start. A sentence of the lesson «Learning a skill, and coins 
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# Learning a skill, and coins and notes, sentence 1

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Everybody learns at a different speed, so you compare yourself with how you were last month, not with a faster learner, and you give a new club a fair try for several weeks, because the start is the hardest part.

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**Who acts:** Everybody, you, start · **What happens:** learn, compare, be, give · **To what, where:** different speed, yourself, last month, fair try, new club, hardest part

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» 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 (Everybody, you, start), 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:1
# text = Everybody learns at a different speed, so you compare yourself with how you were last month, not with a faster learner, and you give a new club a fair try for several weeks, because the start is the hardest part.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	learns	learn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	compare	compare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	learner	learner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
38	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	44	amod	_	_
44	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	advcl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | present | Everybody |  |  | a different speed |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **compare** | present | you | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | you | last month and a faster learner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | present | you | a fair try | a new club |  | week |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent club=Recipient try=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the start | the hardest part |  |  |  |  | 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:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:1`.

**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 ×1, 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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