--- title: Children born early in the school year can be nearly a year older th… — Famous athletes and what being a professional ta… · tree and pragmatics description: Children born early in the school year can be nearly a year older than classmates, so they are often bigger and get picked more; many younger ones catch up later. Who acts: Children, classmates, many younger ones. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children, classmates, many younger ones), 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:15 # text = Children born early in the school year can be nearly a year older than classmates, so they are often bigger and get picked more; many younger ones catch up later. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 2 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 3 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 10 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 14 than than ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 classmates classmate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 often often ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advcl 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 24 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 xcomp _ _ 25 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | participle | | Children *not said here* | | | year | early *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | can | Children | | | | year | than classmates; nearly, old *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | classmates *= classmate* | | | | | big, often *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **get** | infinitive | classmates *= classmate* *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **pick** | participle | classmates *= classmate* *not said here* | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **catch up** | present | many younger ones | | | | | late *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:15`. **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): 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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