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title: Getting better at anything takes practice, and practice can be frust… — Catch and release, practising well and sharing s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Getting better at anything takes practice, and practice can be frustrating. Who acts: Getting, practice. 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 2

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Getting better at anything takes practice, and practice can be frustrating.

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**Who acts:** Getting, practice · **What happens:** get, take, be · **To what, where:** anything, practice

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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 (Getting, practice), 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:2
# text = Getting better at anything takes practice, and practice can be frustrating.
# 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	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
5	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	frustrating	frustrating	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  | anything |  | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **take** | present | Getting | practice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent practice=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | can | practice |  |  |  |  | frustrating *property* | tree rules |

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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:2`.

**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/).

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