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title: The «10,000 hours» idea was made popular by a book; practice matters… — Famous athletes and what being a professional ta… · tree and pragmatics
description: The «10,000 hours» idea was made popular by a book; practice matters a lot, but there is no magic number, and coaching, rest and enjoyment matter too. Who acts: book, practice, magic number. A sentence of the lesson «Famous athletes and what being a professional takes» of the medicine course of Mova
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# Famous athletes and what being a professional takes, sentence 6

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The «10,000 hours» idea was made popular by a book; practice matters a lot, but there is no magic number, and coaching, rest and enjoyment matter too.

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**Who acts:** book, practice, magic number · **What happens:** make, matter, be · **To what, where:** hours idea, lot, coaching

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous athletes and what being a professional takes» 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 (book, practice, magic number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:063-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes.lesson:6
# text = The «10,000 hours» idea was made popular by a book; practice matters a lot, but there is no magic number, and coaching, rest and enjoyment matter too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 063-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nmod
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:agent	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	_	21	expl	_	_
21	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
23	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	coaching	coaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	_	27	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=29:conj
32	matter	matter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
33	too	too	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **make** | past · passive | a book | the hours idea |  |  |  | popular *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 2 | **matter** | present | practice | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **be** | present | no magic number |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **matter** | present | a book *not said here* | coaching and rest and enjoyment |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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