--- title: When practice is frustrating, break the skill into small steps and p… — Catch and release, practising well and sharing s… · tree and pragmatics description: When practice is frustrating, break the skill into small steps and practise one at a time. Who acts: practice, you. A sentence of the lesson «Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Catch and release, practising well and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/) / 12 # Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear, sentence 12 When practice is frustrating, break the skill into small steps and practise one at a time. **Who acts:** practice, you · **What happens:** be, break, practise · **To what, where:** skill, one This is a sentence of the lesson «Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear» 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 (practice, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear.lesson:12 # text = When practice is frustrating, break the skill into small steps and practise one at a time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear.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): no change 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 frustrating frustrating ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 break break VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 practise practise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 obj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | practice | | | | | frustrating *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **break** | imperative | you *not said here* | the skill | | | | into small steps *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent skill=Patient into step=Result | | 3 | **practise** | infinitive | you *not said here* | one | | | time | | tree rules | 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:305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear.lesson:12`. **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): no change. **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: [Catch and release, practising well and…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/11/) - next →: [Catch and release, practising well and…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/)