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title: Children born early in the school year can be almost a year older th… — Growing and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: Children born early in the school year can be almost a year older than classmates; some academies now group young players by maturity rather than only age, called bio-banding. Who acts: Children, academies. A sentence of the lesson «Growing and sport» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school 
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# Growing and sport, sentence 15

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Children born early in the school year can be almost a year older than classmates; some academies now group young players by maturity rather than only age, called bio-banding.

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**Who acts:** Children, academies · **What happens:** bear, be, group, call · **To what, where:** Children, young players, bio banding · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing and sport» 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, academies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:040-growing-and-sport.lesson:15
# text = Children born early in the school year can be almost a year older than classmates; some academies now group young players by maturity rather than only age, called bio-banding.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 040-growing-and-sport.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
2	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
10	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	classmates	classmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	academies	academy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	group	group	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	maturity	maturity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	28	cc	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
31	bio	bio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	banding	banding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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; almost, old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **group** | present | some academies | young players |  |  | now | by maturity rather age and bio banding | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | bio banding *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:040-growing-and-sport.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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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