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title: Only a tiny share of boys who join a football academy young become p… — Famous athletes and what being a professional ta… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only a tiny share of boys who join a football academy young become professionals; the figure often quoted is under 1 in 100. Who acts: boys, figure. 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
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# Famous athletes and what being a professional takes, sentence 5

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Only a tiny share of boys who join a football academy young become professionals; the figure often quoted is under 1 in 100.

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**Who acts:** boys, figure · **What happens:** join, become, quote, be, share · **To what, where:** football academy, professionals, figure, 1, boys

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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 (boys, figure), 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:5
# text = Only a tiny share of boys who join a football academy young become professionals; the figure often quoted is under 1 in 100.
# 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 ×1
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	academy	academy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	young	young	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
13	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	professionals	professional	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	quoted	quote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **join** | present | boys | a football academy |  |  |  | young *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent academy=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | infinitive | boys *not said here* | professionals |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **quote** *speech: other* | participle |  | the figure *not said here* |  |  |  | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the figure |  |  | 1 |  | in 100 | tree rules |
| 5 | **share** |  |  | boys |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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): R7-rel-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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