--- title: Some things take longer to learn, and a different way of practising,… — I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the… · tree and pragmatics description: Some things take longer to learn, and a different way of practising, like a song for times tables, can help; "not yet" is truer than "my brain doesn't work". Who acts: things, different way, 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 (things, different way, brain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:024-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark.lesson:19 # text = Some things take longer to learn, and a different way of practising, like a song for times tables, can help; "not yet" is truer than "my brain doesn't work". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 024-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 7 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 practising practise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 compound _ _ 20 tables table NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod 27 yet yet ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 truer true ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 parataxis _ _ 31 than than SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | some things | longer | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent long=Theme | | 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive | some things *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **practise** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **help** | can | a different way like a song for times tables | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | yet | true *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **work** *in a quote* | present · do-support | my brain | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:reflection:024-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark.lesson:19`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [I failed: the missed penalty, the lost…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/24-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark/18/) - next →: [Disappointed: when things don't go the…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/25-disappointed-when-things-dont-go-the-way-you-hoped/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/24-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark/)