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title: Small steps practised often lead to big improvement over time. — Catch and release, practising well and sharing s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Small steps practised often lead to big improvement over time. Who acts: Small steps. 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 every clause.
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# Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear, sentence 13

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Small steps practised often lead to big improvement over time.

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**Who acts:** Small steps · **What happens:** practise, lead · **To what, where:** Small steps

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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 (Small steps), 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:13
# text = Small steps practised often lead to big improvement over 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	practised	practise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
5	lead	lead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	improvement	improvement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | participle |  | Small steps *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | present | Small steps |  |  |  |  | to big improvement over time; often *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to improvement=Patient |

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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:305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear.lesson:13`.

**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. **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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