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title: Good running shoes can help a little if they fit, but training matte… — Bets, dares and silly reasons · tree and pragmatics
description: Good running shoes can help a little if they fit, but training matters far more for speed. Who acts: Good running shoes, shoes, training. A sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 15

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Good running shoes can help a little if they fit, but training matters far more for speed.

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**Who acts:** Good running shoes, shoes, training · **What happens:** help, fit, matter · **To what, where:** little

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» of the world 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 (Good running shoes, shoes, training), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:15
# text = Good running shoes can help a little if they fit, but training matters far more for speed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.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
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:amod
2	running	running	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	training	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **help** | can | Good running shoes | a little |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **fit** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **matter** | present | training |  |  |  |  | for speed | 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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**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:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:15`.

**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. **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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