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title: Paralympians are grouped into classes by their kind of impairment so… — The Olympics and Paralympics · tree and pragmatics
description: Paralympians are grouped into classes by their kind of impairment so races are fair, which is why one distance has several finals; running blades spring back, but the runner's own muscles, balance and heart do the work, and in goalball everyone wears eyeshades and follows a ball with bells inside. W
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# The Olympics and Paralympics, sentence 3

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Paralympians are grouped into classes by their kind of impairment so races are fair, which is why one distance has several finals; running blades spring back, but the runner's own muscles, balance and heart do the work, and in goalball everyone wears eyeshades and follows a ball with bells inside.

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**Who acts:** kind, races, one distance, running blades, everyone · **What happens:** group, be, have, run, spring back, do · **To what, where:** Paralympians, classes, several finals, work, eyeshades, goalball

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Olympics and Paralympics» 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 (kind, races, one distance, running blades), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:062-the-olympics-and-paralympics.lesson:3
# text = Paralympians are grouped into classes by their kind of impairment so races are fair, which is why one distance has several finals; running blades spring back, but the runner's own muscles, balance and heart do the work, and in goalball everyone wears eyeshades and follows a ball with bells inside.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 062-the-olympics-and-paralympics.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 ×2
1	Paralympians	paralympian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	grouped	group	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	classes	class	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	impairment	impairment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
12	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	parataxis	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	finals	final	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	spring	spring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	runner	runner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	goalball	goalball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
47	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	48	nsubj	_	_
48	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
49	eyeshades	eyeshade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	_
56	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **group** | present · passive | Paralympians's kind of impairment | Paralympians |  |  |  | into classes *goal* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into class=Goal |
| 2 | **is** | present | races |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | one distance | several finals and running blades but the runner's own muscles and balance and heart |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent final=Patient |
| 5 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **spring back** | gerund | running blades *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **do** | present |  | the work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 8 | **wear** | present | everyone | eyeshades |  | goalball |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eyeshade=Source |
| 9 | **follow** | present | everyone *not said here* | a ball |  |  |  | with bells; inside *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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