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title: As a boy, Lionel Messi was treated for a growth hormone problem and… — Growing and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: As a boy, Lionel Messi was treated for a growth hormone problem and grew to about 1.70 m; Peter Crouch, at about 2.01 m, also played for England. Who acts: Peter Crouch. A sentence of the lesson «Growing and sport» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Growing and sport, sentence 16

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As a boy, Lionel Messi was treated for a growth hormone problem and grew to about 1.70 m; Peter Crouch, at about 2.01 m, also played for England.

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**Who acts:** Peter Crouch · **What happens:** treat, grow, play · **To what, where:** Lionel Messi, 2.01 m

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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 (Peter Crouch), 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:16
# text = As a boy, Lionel Messi was treated for a growth hormone problem and grew to about 1.70 m; Peter Crouch, at about 2.01 m, also played for England.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Messi	Messi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	hormone	hormone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	1.70	1.70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Crouch	crouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	2.01	2.01	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
29	also	also	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	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 | **treat** | past · passive |  | Lionel Messi |  |  |  | as a boy; for a hormone problem | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as boy=Attribute |
| 2 | **grow** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to 1.70 m | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | past | Peter Crouch |  |  | 2.01 m |  | for England | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for england=Eventuality |

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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:16`.

**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 ×1, 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.

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

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