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title: A game controller trains the thumbs, not the legs; professional foot… — Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter · tree and pragmatics
description: A game controller trains the thumbs, not the legs; professional footballers train most days for years and often run about 10 km in a match. Who acts: game controller, professional footballers. A sentence of the lesson «Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter» of the medicine course of Mova's pr
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# Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter, sentence 8

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A game controller trains the thumbs, not the legs; professional footballers train most days for years and often run about 10 km in a match.

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**Who acts:** game controller, professional footballers · **What happens:** train, run about · **To what, where:** thumbs, 10 km, match

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter» of the medicine 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 (game controller, professional footballers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:038-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter.lesson:8
# text = A game controller trains the thumbs, not the legs; professional footballers train most days for years and often run about 10 km in a match.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 038-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	controller	controller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	trains	train	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thumbs	thumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	professional	professional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	footballers	footballer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	train	train	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **train** | present | a game controller | the thumbs and the legs |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thumb=Theme |
| 2 | **train** | present | professional footballers |  |  |  | day; year |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run about** | present | professional footballers *not said here* | 10 km |  | a match |  | often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent km=Theme in match=Trajectory |

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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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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