--- title: Breaking a hard skill into small steps makes each step possible, and… — Catch and release, practising well and sharing s… · tree and pragmatics description: Breaking a hard skill into small steps makes each step possible, and the small steps add up. Who acts: Breaking, small steps. 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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 (Breaking, 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:3 # text = Breaking a hard skill into small steps makes each step possible, and the small steps add up. # 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 Breaking break VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 8 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | gerund | | a hard skill | | | | into small steps *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent skill=Patient into step=Result | | 2 | **make** | present | Breaking | each step | | | | possible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset step=Product | | 3 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | the small steps | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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:3`. **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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/2/) - next →: [Catch and release, practising well and…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/)