--- title: "Some people are just bad at maths" is a myth: maths grows with prac… — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics description: "Some people are just bad at maths" is a myth: maths grows with practice like any other skill, and believing you can improve helps you keep trying. Who acts: people, maths, you, believing. 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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 (people, maths, you, believing), 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:2 # text = "Some people are just bad at maths" is a myth: maths grows with practice like any other skill, and believing you can improve helps you keep trying. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 2 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:csubj 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 maths math NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 maths math NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 15 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 20 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 believing believe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 csubj _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 improve improve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 28 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 31 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=evaluate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | some people | | | maths | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a myth | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | present | maths | | | | | with practice like any other skill | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **believe** | gerund | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **improve** | can | you | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **help** | present | believing | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **keep** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **try** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:2`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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: [Learning a skill, and coins and notes, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/1/) - next →: [Learning a skill, and coins and notes, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/)