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title: Bigger, heavier bodies are a real strength in some positions, like r… — Growing and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: Bigger, heavier bodies are a real strength in some positions, like rugby forwards such as a prop; teasing someone about their size is never OK. Who acts: Bigger heavier bodies, teasing. A sentence of the lesson «Growing and sport» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Growing and sport, sentence 18

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Bigger, heavier bodies are a real strength in some positions, like rugby forwards such as a prop; teasing someone about their size is never OK.

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**Who acts:** Bigger heavier bodies, teasing · **What happens:** be, tease, not be · **To what, where:** real strength, positions, someone

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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 (Bigger heavier bodies, teasing), 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:18
# text = Bigger, heavier bodies are a real strength in some positions, like rugby forwards such as a prop; teasing someone about their size is never OK.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	positions	position	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	forwards	forward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	prop	prop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	csubj	_	_
22	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	OK	ok	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Bigger heavier bodies | a real strength |  | some positions like rugby forwards such a prop |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tease** | gerund |  | someone |  |  |  | about bodies's size | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | teasing |  |  |  |  | ok *property* | tree rules |

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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:18`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

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