Famous athletes and what being a professional takes, sentence 9
Most professional footballers retire in their 30s, and many outside the top leagues earn ordinary wages and need a second career.
Who acts: Most professional footballers, many · What happens: retire, earn, need · To what, where: 30s, ordinary wages, second career
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 (Most professional footballers, many), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 footballers | amod |
| 2 | professional | professional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 footballers | amod |
| 3 | footballers | footballer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 retire | nsubj |
| 4 | retire | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 30s | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 30s | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 30s | 30s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 4 retire | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 earn | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 earn | cc |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 earn | nsubj |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 14 leagues | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 leagues | det |
| 13 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 leagues | amod |
| 14 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 many | nmod |
| 15 | earn | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 retire | conj |
| 16 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wages | amod |
| 17 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 earn | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 need | cc |
| 19 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 earn | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 career | det |
| 21 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 career | amod |
| 22 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 need | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 retire | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | present | Most professional footballers | footballers's 30s | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | earn | present | many outside the top leagues | ordinary wages | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | need | present | many outside the top leagues not said here | a second career | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot career=Theme |
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:9.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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