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title: Practice and good teaching change how well people do in maths; there… — Your amazing brain and senses · tree and pragmatics
description: Practice and good teaching change how well people do in maths; there are no born "non-maths people". Who acts: Practice, people, born non-maths people. A sentence of the lesson «Your amazing brain and senses» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Your amazing brain and senses, sentence 14

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Practice and good teaching change how well people do in maths; there are no born "non-maths people".

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**Who acts:** Practice, people, born non-maths people · **What happens:** change, do, be, bear · **To what, where:** maths

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Your amazing brain and senses» of the myths 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 (Practice, people, born non-maths people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.lesson:14
# text = Practice and good teaching change how well people do in maths; there are no born "non-maths people".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Practice	Practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod
4	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
16	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	non-maths	non-math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	compound	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | **change** | present | Practice and good teaching |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | people |  |  | maths |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **does** | present | no born non-maths people |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:myths:002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.lesson:14`.

**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, R6-punct-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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