Famous athletes and what being a professional takes, sentence 15

Children born early in the school year can be nearly a year older than classmates, so they are often bigger and get picked more; many younger ones catch up later.

Who acts: Children, classmates, many younger ones · What happens: bear, be, get, pick, catch up · To what, where: Children

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 (Children, classmates, many younger ones), 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 older	nsubj
2	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Children	acl
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 born	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 year	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 year	det
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 year	compound
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 born	obl
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 older	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 older	cop
10	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	13 older	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 older	obl:unmarked
13	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
14	than	than	ADP	_	15 classmates	case
15	classmates	classmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 older	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bigger	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 bigger	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bigger	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 bigger	cop
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 bigger	advmod
21	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 older	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 get	cc
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 bigger	conj
24	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 get	xcomp
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 picked	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 catch	punct
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ones	amod
28	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 ones	amod
29	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 catch	nsubj
30	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 older	parataxis
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 catch	compound:prt
32	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 catch	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 older	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bear	participle		Children not said here	year	early property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	can	Children		year	than classmates; nearly, old property	tree rules
3	is	present	classmates = classmate			big, often property	tree rules
4	get	infinitive	classmates = classmate not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	pick	participle	classmates = classmate not said here				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	catch up	present	many younger ones			late property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:063-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes.lesson:15.

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 ×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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