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title: Before puberty boys and girls have very similar muscle, speed and st… — Girls' and boys' teams · tree and pragmatics
description: Before puberty boys and girls have very similar muscle, speed and strength, and practice matters most. Who acts: boys, practice. A sentence of the lesson «Girls' and boys' teams» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Girls' and boys' teams, sentence 5

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Before puberty boys and girls have very similar muscle, speed and strength, and practice matters most.

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**Who acts:** boys, practice · **What happens:** have, matter · **To what, where:** similar muscle

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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 (boys, practice), 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:5
# text = Before puberty boys and girls have very similar muscle, speed and strength, and practice matters most.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	puberty	puberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound
17	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **have** | present | boys and girls | similar muscle and speed and strength |  |  | before puberty |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient |
| 2 | **matter** | present | practice |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:069-girls-and-boys-teams.lesson:5`.

**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.

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

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