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title: Women's sport is big and growing: England's Lionesses won the Euros… — Girls' and boys' teams · tree and pragmatics
description: Women's sport is big and growing: England's Lionesses won the Euros in 2022 and again in 2025, and the Red Roses won the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup, while men and boys play netball too, so any sport is open to anyone who loves it. Who acts: sport, Lionesses, Red Roses, men. A sentence of the lesso
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# Girls' and boys' teams, sentence 3

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Women's sport is big and growing: England's Lionesses won the Euros in 2022 and again in 2025, and the Red Roses won the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup, while men and boys play netball too, so any sport is open to anyone who loves it.

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**Who acts:** sport, Lionesses, Red Roses, men, Women · **What happens:** be, grow, win, play, love, sport · **To what, where:** Euros, 2022, 2025 World Cup, netball, sport

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Girls' and boys' teams» 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 (sport, Lionesses, Red Roses, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:069-girls-and-boys-teams.lesson:3
# text = Women's sport is big and growing: England's Lionesses won the Euros in 2022 and again in 2025, and the Red Roses won the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup, while men and boys play netball too, so any sport is open to anyone who loves it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 069-girls-and-boys-teams.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
9	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	Lionesses	lioness	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
12	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Euros	euro	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	2025	2025	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det
24	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Roses	Roses	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
26	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
28	2025	2025	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	compound	_	_
29	Women	Women	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	Rugby	Rugby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Cup	cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=36:cc
38	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
39	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj
40	netball	netball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	too	too	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
44	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	45	det	_	_
45	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	47	obl	_	_
50	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
51	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | Women's sport |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | Women's sport *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **win** | past | England's Lionesses | the Euros |  | 2022 |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent euro=Eventuality |
| 4 | **win** | past | the Red Roses | Women's 2025 World Cup |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Eventuality |
| 5 | **play** | present | men and boys | netball |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent netball=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | any sport |  |  |  |  | to anyone; open *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **love** | present |  | sport |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 8 | **sport** |  | Women |  |  |  |  |  | nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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