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title: Skill is the brain and muscles learning together; practice makes the… — Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter · tree and pragmatics
description: Skill is the brain and muscles learning together; practice makes the nerves time each movement better. Who acts: Skill, brain, practice, nerves. A sentence of the lesson «Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter, sentence 7

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Skill is the brain and muscles learning together; practice makes the nerves time each movement better.

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**Who acts:** Skill, brain, practice, nerves · **What happens:** be, learn, make, time · **To what, where:** brain, movement

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter» of the medicine 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, brain, practice, nerves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:038-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter.lesson:7
# text = Skill is the brain and muscles learning together; practice makes the nerves time each movement better.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 038-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter.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
1	Skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	time	time	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **is a** | present | Skill | the brain and muscles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | gerund | the brain and muscles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | present | practice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **time** | infinitive | the nerves | each movement |  |  |  | well *property* | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme |

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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:medicine:038-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter.lesson:7`.

**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. **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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