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title: Pain is a message, not a badge: sore knees or heels in a growth spur… — Famous athletes and what being a professional ta… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pain is a message, not a badge: sore knees or heels in a growth spurt need rest and a check, a torn knee ligament means surgery and months out, and when Simone Biles withdrew from events in Tokyo to protect herself, many people called it brave. Who acts: Pain, torn knee ligament, Simone Biles, many 
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# Famous athletes and what being a professional takes, sentence 4

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Pain is a message, not a badge: sore knees or heels in a growth spurt need rest and a check, a torn knee ligament means surgery and months out, and when Simone Biles withdrew from events in Tokyo to protect herself, many people called it brave.

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**Who acts:** Pain, torn knee ligament, Simone Biles, many people · **What happens:** be, tear, mean, withdraw, protect, call · **To what, where:** message, surgery, events, Biles, ligament · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous athletes and what being a professional takes» 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 (Pain, torn knee ligament, Simone Biles, many people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:063-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes.lesson:4
# text = Pain is a message, not a badge: sore knees or heels in a growth spurt need rest and a check, a torn knee ligament means surgery and months out, and when Simone Biles withdrew from events in Tokyo to protect herself, many people called it brave.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 063-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	badge	badge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
16	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	spurt	spurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:compound
18	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
26	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	ligament	ligament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
29	surgery	surgery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
35	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	38	mark	_	_
36	Simone	Simone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Biles	Biles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Tokyo	Tokyo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:obl
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
45	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	44	obj	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
47	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
49	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	xcomp	_	_
52	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | Pain | a message and a badge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | present | a torn knee ligament | surgery and months |  |  |  | out *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surgery=Topic |
| 4 | **withdraw** | past | Simone Biles |  |  | events in Tokyo |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from event=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **protect** | to-infinitive | Simone Biles *not said here* | Biles |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **call** | past | many people | ligament |  |  |  | brave *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |

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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 ×3, 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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