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title: Advice in sport changes as scientists test old ideas, so a rule that… — Moving, swimming and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: Advice in sport changes as scientists test old ideas, so a rule that was normal thirty years ago may be dropped today. Who acts: Advice, scientists, rule. A sentence of the lesson «Moving, swimming and sport» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Moving, swimming and sport, sentence 15

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Advice in sport changes as scientists test old ideas, so a rule that was normal thirty years ago may be dropped today.

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**Who acts:** Advice, scientists, rule · **What happens:** change, test, be, drop · **To what, where:** old ideas, rule

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving, swimming and sport» of the myths 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 (Advice, scientists, rule), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:005-moving-swimming-and-sport.lesson:15
# text = Advice in sport changes as scientists test old ideas, so a rule that was normal thirty years ago may be dropped today.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 005-moving-swimming-and-sport.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	Advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	test	test	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
23	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | Advice in sport |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **test** | present | scientists | old ideas |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | a rule |  |  |  |  | ago, normal *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **drop** | may · passive |  | a rule |  |  | today |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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**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:myths:005-moving-swimming-and-sport.lesson:15`.

**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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