Famous athletes and what being a professional takes, sentence 5
Only a tiny share of boys who join a football academy young become professionals; the figure often quoted is under 1 in 100.
Who acts: boys, figure · What happens: join, become, quote, be, share · To what, where: football academy, professionals, figure, 1, boys
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 (boys, figure), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 share | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 share | det |
| 3 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 share | amod |
| 4 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 boys | case |
| 6 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 share | nmod |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 join | nsubj |
| 8 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 boys | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 academy | det |
| 10 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 academy | compound |
| 11 | academy | academy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 join | obj |
| 12 | young | young | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 join | advmod |
| 13 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 join | conj |
| 14 | professionals | professional | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 become | xcomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 1 | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 figure | det |
| 17 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 1 | nsubj |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 quoted | advmod |
| 19 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 figure | acl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 1 | cop |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 1 | case |
| 22 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 share | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 100 | case |
| 24 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 1 | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 share | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | present | boys | a football academy | young property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent academy=Patient | |||
| 2 | become | infinitive | boys not said here | professionals | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | quote speech: other | participle | the figure not said here | often property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the figure | 1 | in 100 | tree rules | |||
| 5 | share | boys | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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:5.
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 ×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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