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title: A torn ACL, a ligament inside the knee, often needs surgery and arou… — Famous athletes and what being a professional ta… · tree and pragmatics
description: A torn ACL, a ligament inside the knee, often needs surgery and around 9 months of rehab before a player is back. Who acts: torn ACL, player. 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 th
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# Famous athletes and what being a professional takes, sentence 8

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A torn ACL, a ligament inside the knee, often needs surgery and around 9 months of rehab before a player is back.

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**Who acts:** torn ACL, player · **What happens:** tear, need, be · **To what, where:** surgery

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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 (torn ACL, player), 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:8
# text = A torn ACL, a ligament inside the knee, often needs surgery and around 9 months of rehab before a player is back.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	ACL	ACL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ligament	ligament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj
7	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	surgery	surgery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	around	around	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	rehab	rehab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | a torn ACL | surgery and 9 months of rehab |  |  |  | often *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot surgery=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | a player |  |  |  |  | back *property* | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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 ×2, 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.

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

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