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title: Serena Williams won 23 Grand Slam singles titles after years of trai… — Famous athletes and what being a professional ta… · tree and pragmatics
description: Serena Williams won 23 Grand Slam singles titles after years of training from a young age. Who acts: Serena. A sentence of the lesson «Famous athletes and what being a professional takes» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Famous athletes and what being a professional takes, sentence 11

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Serena Williams won 23 Grand Slam singles titles after years of training from a young age.

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**Who acts:** Serena · **What happens:** win · **To what, where:** 23 Grand singles titles

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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 (Serena), 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:11
# text = Serena Williams won 23 Grand Slam singles titles after years of training from a young age.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Serena	Serena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Williams	Williams	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
5	Grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	Slam	slam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	singles	single	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	titles	title	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nmod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **win** | past | Serena | 23 Grand singles titles |  |  | year |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=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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**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:063-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes.lesson:11`.

**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, R8-pos-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.

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

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