--- title: Playing a little every day trains your fingers and brain better than… — Console games, building, crafts, music and ball… · tree and pragmatics description: Playing a little every day trains your fingers and brain better than one long session a week, and practising mistakes fast only makes them a habit. Who acts: Playing. 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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 (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:5 # text = Playing a little every day trains your fingers and brain better than one long session a week, and practising mistakes fast only 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 obj _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 trains train VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 better good ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 14 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 session session NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 practising practise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 21 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 23 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | gerund | | a little | | | day | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme | | 2 | **train** | present | Playing | your fingers and brain | | | | good *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | | 3 | **practise** | gerund | | mistakes | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | Playing *not said here* | fingers *= finger* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | 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:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.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): R5-strong ×2, 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. 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