Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 5

Guitar strings hurt beginners' fingertips; after a few weeks of short regular practice, the skin toughens into calluses, patches of hardened skin, and the pain fades.

Who acts: Guitar strings, skin, pain · What happens: hurt, toughen, harden, fade · To what, where: fingertips, calluses

This is a sentence of the lesson «Being bad at something and keeping going» of the arts 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 (Guitar strings, skin, pain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guitar	guitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 strings	compound
2	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hurt	nsubj
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	beginners	beginner	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fingertips	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 beginners	case
6	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hurt	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 toughens	punct
8	after	after	ADP	_	11 weeks	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 weeks	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 weeks	amod
11	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 toughens	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 practice	case
13	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 practice	amod
14	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 practice	amod
15	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 weeks	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 toughens	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 skin	det
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 toughens	nsubj
19	toughens	toughen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hurt	parataxis
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 calluses	case
21	calluses	callus	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 toughens	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 patches	punct
23	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 calluses	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 skin	case
25	hardened	harden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 skin	amod
26	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 patches	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fades	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fades	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pain	det
30	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fades	nsubj
31	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 toughens	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hurt	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hurt	present	Guitar strings	beginners's fingertips			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fingertip=Patient
2	toughen	present	the skin		calluses and patches of hardened skin	week	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	harden	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	fade	present	the pain				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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, 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:arts:037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.lesson:5.

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.

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