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title: Ben Johnson won the 1988 Olympic 100 m in Seoul in 9.79 seconds but… — Cheating and doping, as reported · tree and pragmatics
description: Ben Johnson won the 1988 Olympic 100 m in Seoul in 9.79 seconds but was stripped of the gold days later after testing positive for a steroid, and the gold went to Carl Lewis. Who acts: Ben, gold. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating and doping, as reported» of the medicine course of Mova's primary sch
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# Cheating and doping, as reported, sentence 7

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Ben Johnson won the 1988 Olympic 100 m in Seoul in 9.79 seconds but was stripped of the gold days later after testing positive for a steroid, and the gold went to Carl Lewis.

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**Who acts:** Ben, gold · **What happens:** win, strip, test, go · **To what, where:** 1988 Olympic 100 m, Seoul, Carl Lewis

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating and doping, as reported» 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 (Ben, gold), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:064-cheating-and-doping-as-reported.lesson:7
# text = Ben Johnson won the 1988 Olympic 100 m in Seoul in 9.79 seconds but was stripped of the gold days later after testing positive for a steroid, and the gold went to Carl Lewis.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 064-cheating-and-doping-as-reported.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
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Johnson	Johnson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	1988	1988	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	Olympic	Olympic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	m	m	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Seoul	Seoul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	9.79	9.79	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	stripped	strip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
22	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	testing	test	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
24	positive	positive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	steroid	steroid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Lewis	Lewis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | Ben | the 1988 Olympic 100 m |  | Seoul | second |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent m=Eventuality |
| 2 | **strip** | past · passive | Ben *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the gold; late *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **test** | gerund | Ben *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a steroid; positive *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for steroid=Attribute |
| 4 | **go** | past | the gold |  |  | Carl Lewis |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lewis=Initial\_Location |

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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:064-cheating-and-doping-as-reported.lesson:7`.

**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. **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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