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# Famous athletes and what being a professional takes, sentence 9

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Most professional footballers retire in their 30s, and many outside the top leagues earn ordinary wages and need a second career.

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**Who acts:** Most professional footballers, many · **What happens:** retire, earn, need · **To what, where:** 30s, ordinary wages, second career

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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 (Most professional footballers, many), 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:9
# text = Most professional footballers retire in their 30s, and many outside the top leagues earn ordinary wages and need a second career.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	professional	professional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	footballers	footballer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	retire	retire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	30s	30s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
11	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	earn	earn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **retire** | present | Most professional footballers |  |  | footballers's 30s |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **earn** | present | many outside the top leagues | ordinary wages |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wage=Theme |
| 3 | **need** | present | many outside the top leagues *not said here* | a second career |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot career=Theme |

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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): R2-punct-next ×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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