--- title: When you get frustrated in practice, break the skill into small step… — Rackets, running with things in your mouth, foot… · tree and pragmatics description: When you get frustrated in practice, break the skill into small steps; small steps lead to big improvement. Who acts: you, small steps. A sentence of the lesson «Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear» of the everyday course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/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/) / [Rackets, running with things in your m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/) / 12 # Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear, sentence 12 When you get frustrated in practice, break the skill into small steps; small steps lead to big improvement. **Who acts:** you, small steps · **What happens:** get, break, lead · **To what, where:** skill This is a sentence of the lesson «Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared 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 (you, small steps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice.lesson:12 # text = When you get frustrated in practice, break the skill into small steps; small steps lead to big improvement. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 frustrated frustrated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 break break VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 lead lead VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 improvement improvement NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | you | | | | | frustrated *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 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 | **lead** | present | small steps | | | | | to big improvement | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to improvement=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:328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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. 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