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title: Practice makes it quick: an amazing shark photo during a flood, "the… — Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet · tree and pragmatics
description: Practice makes it quick: an amazing shark photo during a flood, "the election's cancelled" from one clip, a famous footballer's quote with no when or where, a chain message that orders you to forward it. Who acts: Practice, chain message, famous footballer. A sentence of the lesson «Checking practic
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# Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet, sentence 2

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Practice makes it quick: an amazing shark photo during a flood, "the election's cancelled" from one clip, a famous footballer's quote with no when or where, a chain message that orders you to forward it.

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**Who acts:** Practice, chain message, famous footballer · **What happens:** make, cancel, order, forward, quote · **To what, where:** coat, election, one clip, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» of the politics 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, chain message, famous footballer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.lesson:2
# text = Practice makes it quick: an amazing shark photo during a flood, "the election's cancelled" from one clip, a famous footballer's quote with no when or where, a chain message that orders you to forward it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.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	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
10	during	during	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	cancelled	cancel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	footballer	footballer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	quote	quote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	nmod	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	orders	order	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	forward	forward	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Practice | coat |  |  |  | a famous footballer's quote *obl*; quick *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 2 | **cancel** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the election |  | one clip |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **order** | present | a chain message |  | you |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **forward** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a chain message *not said here* | coat |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **quote** |  | a famous footballer |  |  |  |  |  | nom quote «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:politics:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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