--- title: Skill grows from many small sessions: Lucas in Ontario does 20 minut… — The kid who is always on the bench · tree and pragmatics description: Skill grows from many small sessions: Lucas in Ontario does 20 minutes of keepy-uppies every day, and Anaya in London asks her coach what to work on and passes against the garden wall, until the brain wires the move in. Who acts: Skill, Lucas, Anaya, brain. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Skill, Lucas, Anaya, brain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:070-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench.lesson:2 # text = Skill grows from many small sessions: Lucas in Ontario does 20 minutes of keepy-uppies every day, and Anaya in London asks her coach what to work on and passes against the garden wall, until the brain wires the move in. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 070-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 sessions session NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Lucas Lucas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Ontario Ontario PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 keepy keepy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 uppies uppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 Anaya Anaya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 30 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 30 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 34 against against ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 until until SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 wires wire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | Skill | | | | | from many small sessions | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from session=Patient | | 2 | **do** | present | Lucas in Ontario | | | | day; minute | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Anaya in London | Anaya's coach | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coach=Recipient | | 4 | **work on** | to-infinitive | Anaya in London *not said here* | Anaya's coach | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent what=Material | | 5 | **pass** | present | Anaya in London *not said here* | | | the garden wall | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against wall=Location | | 6 | **wire in** | present | the brain | the move | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=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:medicine:070-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench.lesson:2`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The kid who is always on the bench, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/70-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench/0/) - next →: [The kid who is always on the bench, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/70-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/70-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench/)