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title: Playing too long without breaks can cause overuse injuries, and push… — Practising when you would rather not · tree and pragmatics
description: Playing too long without breaks can cause overuse injuries, and pushing through pain can make them worse. Who acts: Playing, pushing. A sentence of the lesson «Practising when you would rather not» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Practising when you would rather not, sentence 17

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Playing too long without breaks can cause overuse injuries, and pushing through pain can make them worse.

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**Who acts:** Playing, pushing · **What happens:** play, cause, push, make · **To what, where:** overuse injuries, pain, injuries

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Practising when you would rather not» 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 (Playing, pushing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.lesson:17
# text = Playing too long without breaks can cause overuse injuries, and pushing through pain can make them worse.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.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	Playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	breaks	break	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	overuse	overuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **play** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | without breaks; long *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cause** | can | Playing | overuse injuries |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition injury=Patient |
| 3 | **push** | gerund |  |  |  | pain |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through pain=Trajectory |
| 4 | **make** | can | pushing | injuries *= injury* |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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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**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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