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title: Sore thumbs or hands after playing are a sign to take a break, not a… — Eyes, backs and thumbs · tree and pragmatics
description: Sore thumbs or hands after playing are a sign to take a break, not a badge of skill. Who acts: Sore thumbs. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 20

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Sore thumbs or hands after playing are a sign to take a break, not a badge of skill.

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**Who acts:** Sore thumbs · **What happens:** play, be, take, badge · **To what, where:** sign, break, skill

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» of the everyday 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 (Sore thumbs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.lesson:20
# text = Sore thumbs or hands after playing are a sign to take a break, not a badge of skill.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.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): no change
1	Sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	thumbs	thumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	badge	badge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | Sore thumbs or hands *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Sore thumbs or hands | a sign and a badge of skill |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | a break |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme |
| 4 | **badge** |  |  | skill |  |  |  |  | nom badge «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.lesson:20`.

**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): no change. **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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