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title: Skill in maths grows with practice like any other skill, and believi… — Marks, group work, help at school and learning n… · tree and pragmatics
description: Skill in maths grows with practice like any other skill, and believing you can improve helps you keep trying. Who acts: Skill, you, believing. A sentence of the lesson «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills, sentence 19

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Skill in maths grows with practice like any other skill, and believing you can improve helps you keep trying.

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**Who acts:** Skill, you, believing · **What happens:** grow, believe, improve, help, keep, try · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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 (Skill, you, believing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.lesson:19
# text = Skill in maths grows with practice like any other skill, and believing you can improve helps you keep trying.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
13	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	improve	improve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	xcomp	_	_
20	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **grow** | present | Skill in maths |  |  |  |  | with practice like any other skill | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **believe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **improve** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **help** | present | believing | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **try** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.lesson:19`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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