--- title: Guitar strings hurt beginners' fingertips; after a few weeks of shor… — Being bad at something and keeping going · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (Guitar strings, skin, pain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.lesson:5 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Guitar guitar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hurt hurt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 beginners beginner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 ' 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 fingertips fingertip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 toughens toughen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 20 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 calluses callus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 patches patch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 hardened harden VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 fades fade VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 32 . . 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 | **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](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: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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Being bad at something and keeping going, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/4/) - next →: [Being bad at something and keeping going, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/)