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title: Protein helps muscles grow and repair, and a child of 7 to 10 needs… — A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport · tree and pragmatics
description: Protein helps muscles grow and repair, and a child of 7 to 10 needs about 28 g a day, which ordinary meals easily give; extra isn't stored as muscle. Who acts: Protein, muscles, child, ordinary meals. A sentence of the lesson «A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport» of the medicine course of Mov
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# A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport, sentence 14

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Protein helps muscles grow and repair, and a child of 7 to 10 needs about 28 g a day, which ordinary meals easily give; extra isn't stored as muscle.

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**Who acts:** Protein, muscles, child, ordinary meals · **What happens:** help, grow, repair, need, give, not store · **To what, where:** 28 g, extra

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A balanced plate for a kid who plays 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 (Protein, muscles, child, ordinary meals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:054-a-balanced-plate-for-a-kid-who-plays-sport.lesson:14
# text = Protein helps muscles grow and repair, and a child of 7 to 10 needs about 28 g a day, which ordinary meals easily give; extra isn't stored as muscle.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 054-a-balanced-plate-for-a-kid-who-plays-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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Protein	protein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	repair	repair	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
12	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
15	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	g	G	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
23	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl:relcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
30	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **help** | present | Protein |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | infinitive | muscles |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **repair** | infinitive | muscles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **need** | present | a child to 7 10 | 28 g  a day |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot g=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | present | ordinary meals | 28 g  a day |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **store** | present · passive |  | extra |  |  |  | as muscle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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