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title: Being a pro is mostly the boring parts done for years: practice, sle… — Famous athletes and what being a professional ta… · tree and pragmatics
description: Being a pro is mostly the boring parts done for years: practice, sleep, planned food, rest days, physio after injuries, and a plan for after a career that usually ends in the 30s. Who acts: career. A sentence of the lesson «Famous athletes and what being a professional takes» of the medicine course 
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# Famous athletes and what being a professional takes, sentence 0

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Being a pro is mostly the boring parts done for years: practice, sleep, planned food, rest days, physio after injuries, and a plan for after a career that usually ends in the 30s.

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**Who acts:** career · **What happens:** be, do, plan, end · **To what, where:** pro, boring parts, 30s

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous athletes and what being a professional takes» 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 (career), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:063-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes.lesson:0
# text = Being a pro is mostly the boring parts done for years: practice, sleep, planned food, rest days, physio after injuries, and a plan for after a career that usually ends in the 30s.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 063-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes.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): R3-conj-first ×2
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pro	pro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	csubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
13	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	physio	physio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	after	after	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	30s	30s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	36	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | gerund |  | a pro |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the boring parts |  |  |  | mostly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | participle |  | the boring parts *not said here* |  |  | year |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **plan** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **end** | present | a career |  |  | the 30s |  | usually *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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**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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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

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