Famous athletes and what being a professional takes, sentence 4
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 people · What happens: be, tear, mean, withdraw, protect, call · To what, where: message, surgery, events, Biles, ligament · Speech: someone speaks here
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 message | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 message | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 message | det |
| 4 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 badge | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 badge | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 badge | det |
| 8 | badge | badge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 message | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 knees | punct |
| 10 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 knees | amod |
| 11 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 badge | appos |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 heels | cc |
| 13 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 knees | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 rest | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 spurt | det |
| 16 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spurt | compound |
| 17 | spurt | spurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knees | nmod |
| 18 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rest | compound |
| 19 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knees | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 check | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 check | det |
| 22 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rest | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 means | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 ligament | det |
| 25 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 ligament | amod |
| 26 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ligament | compound |
| 27 | ligament | ligament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 means | nsubj |
| 28 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 message | parataxis |
| 29 | surgery | surgery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 means | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 months | cc |
| 31 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 surgery | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADV | _ | 28 means | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 called | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 called | cc |
| 35 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 38 withdrew | mark |
| 36 | Simone | Simone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Biles | compound |
| 37 | Biles | Biles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 withdrew | nsubj |
| 38 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 called | advcl |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 events | case |
| 40 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 withdrew | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 Tokyo | case |
| 42 | Tokyo | Tokyo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 events | nmod |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 protect | mark |
| 44 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 withdrew | advcl |
| 45 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 protect | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 withdrew | punct |
| 47 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 people | amod |
| 48 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 called | nsubj |
| 49 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 message | acl:relcl |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 called | obj |
| 51 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 called | xcomp |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 message | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 |
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:4.
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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