--- title: Getting better takes practice: when you get frustrated, break the sk… — Rackets, running with things in your mouth, foot… · tree and pragmatics description: Getting better takes practice: when you get frustrated, break the skill into small steps; if you will miss practice, tell the coach in advance; and clean shared helmets and gloves. Who acts: Getting, you. A sentence of the lesson «Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offsi --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear, sentence 4 Getting better takes practice: when you get frustrated, break the skill into small steps; if you will miss practice, tell the coach in advance; and clean shared helmets and gloves. **Who acts:** Getting, you · **What happens:** get, take, break, miss, tell, clean · **To what, where:** practice, skill, coach, advance, shared helmets · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Getting, you), 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:4 # text = Getting better takes practice: when you get frustrated, break the skill into small steps; if you will miss practice, tell the coach in advance; and clean shared helmets and gloves. # 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 Getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ _ 2 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 1 xcomp _ _ 3 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 9 frustrated frustrated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 11 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 miss miss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 22 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 advance advance NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 32 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 helmets helmet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 gloves glove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | gerund | | | | | | 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 | **get** | present | you | | | | | frustrated *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **break** | infinitive | | the skill | | | | into small steps *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent skill=Patient into step=Result | | 5 | **miss** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | practice | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer practice=Stimulus | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the coach | | advance | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coach=Recipient | | 7 | **clean** | infinitive | Getting *not said here* | shared helmets and gloves | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent helmet=Patient | | 8 | **share** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:4`. **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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