Growing and sport, sentence 6

Messi was a small boy and became one of the greatest players ever, so judge players by skill, not size.

Who acts: Messi · What happens: be, become, judge · To what, where: small boy, players

This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing and sport» 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 (Messi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Messi	Messi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 became	cc
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	conj
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 became	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 players	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 players	det
11	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 players	amod
12	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 players	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 players	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 judge	advmod
16	judge	judge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	parataxis
17	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 judge	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 skill	case
19	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 judge	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 size	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 size	advmod
22	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 skill	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Messi	a small boy		tree rules
2	become	past	Messi not said here			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	judge	infinitive		players	by skill and size	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent player=Value

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, 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:medicine:040-growing-and-sport.lesson:6.

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.

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