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title: Practising a little every day, even ten minutes, builds a skill fast… — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics
description: Practising a little every day, even ten minutes, builds a skill faster than one long session a week. Who acts: Practising. A sentence of the lesson «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Learning a skill, and coins and notes, sentence 5

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Practising a little every day, even ten minutes, builds a skill faster than one long session a week.

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**Who acts:** Practising · **What happens:** practise, build · **To what, where:** skill

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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 (Practising), 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:5
# text = Practising a little every day, even ten minutes, builds a skill faster than one long session a week.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Practising	practise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	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	.	_	11	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 | **practise** | gerund |  |  |  |  | day; minute |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | present | Practising | a skill |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skill=Product |

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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:5`.

**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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