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title: Fix a hard bar by playing it slowly first; playing mistakes fast mak… — Console games, building, crafts, music and ball… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fix a hard bar by playing it slowly first; playing mistakes fast makes them a habit. Who acts: you, playing. A sentence of the lesson «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games, sentence 16

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Fix a hard bar by playing it slowly first; playing mistakes fast makes them a habit.

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**Who acts:** you, playing · **What happens:** fix, play, make · **To what, where:** hard bar, bar, mistakes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games» 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 (you, playing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.lesson:16
# text = Fix a hard bar by playing it slowly first; playing mistakes fast makes them a habit.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.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 ×3
1	Fix	fix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
12	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
14	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | imperative | you *not said here* | a hard bar |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bar=Patient |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | you *not said here* | bar |  |  |  | first, slowly *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | gerund |  | mistakes |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present | playing | mistakes *= mistake* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=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:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.lesson:16`.

**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 ×3. **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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