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title: Every body size can do sport: gymnast Simone Biles is about 1.42 m,… — Growing and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: Every body size can do sport: gymnast Simone Biles is about 1.42 m, and Muggsy Bogues played in the NBA at about 1.60 m. Who acts: body size, Simone Biles, Muggsy. A sentence of the lesson «Growing and sport» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Growing and sport, sentence 17

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Every body size can do sport: gymnast Simone Biles is about 1.42 m, and Muggsy Bogues played in the NBA at about 1.60 m.

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**Who acts:** body size, Simone Biles, Muggsy · **What happens:** do, be, play · **To what, where:** sport, 1.42 m, NBA

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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 (body size, Simone Biles, Muggsy), 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:17
# text = Every body size can do sport: gymnast Simone Biles is about 1.42 m, and Muggsy Bogues played in the NBA at about 1.60 m.
# 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	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	gymnast	gymnast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
9	Simone	Simone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Biles	Biles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	1.42	1.42	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	Muggsy	Muggsy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	Bogues	Bogues	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	NBA	NBA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	1.60	1.60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	m.	m	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
```

## 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 | **do** | can | every body size | sport |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sport=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Simone Biles | 1.42 m |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | past | Muggsy |  |  | the NBA |  | at 1.60 m. | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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**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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