Famous athletes and what being a professional takes, sentence 3
Stars had setbacks too: as a child Lionel Messi was diagnosed with a growth hormone problem, joined Barcelona at 13 and was helped with his treatment, so being small at 10 doesn't decide your future.
Who acts: Stars, Messi · What happens: have, diagnose, join, help, be, not decide · To what, where: setbacks, Lionel Messi, Barcelona, 13, 10, future
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 (Stars, 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 | Stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | setbacks | setback | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 had | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Lionel | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 child | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 diagnosed | obl |
| 9 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Messi | compound |
| 10 | Messi | Messi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 diagnosed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 diagnosed | aux:pass |
| 12 | diagnosed | diagnose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 problem | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 problem | det |
| 15 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hormone | compound |
| 16 | hormone | hormone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 problem | compound |
| 17 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 diagnosed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 joined | punct |
| 19 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 diagnosed | conj |
| 20 | Barcelona | Barcelona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 joined | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 13 | case |
| 22 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 joined | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 helped | cc |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 helped | aux:pass |
| 25 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 joined | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 treatment | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 treatment | nmod:poss |
| 28 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 helped | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 small | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 small | advmod |
| 31 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 small | cop |
| 32 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 decide | csubj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 10 | case |
| 34 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 small | obl |
| 35 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 decide | aux |
| 36 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 decide | advmod |
| 37 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | parataxis |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 future | nmod:poss |
| 39 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 decide | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Stars | setbacks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent setback=Patient | ||||
| 2 | diagnose | past · passive | Lionel Messi | as a child; with a hormone problem | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as child=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | join | past | Barcelona | 13 | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barcelona=Patient | ||||
| 4 | help | past · passive | with Messi's treatment | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: with treatment=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | gerund | 10 | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not decide | present · do-support | your future | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent future=Topic | |||||
| 7 | treat | Messi | nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=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:3.
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): R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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