“My mother played soccer” [closed]

First, even though the juice was water, if I didn’t drink the juice but drank the water, I cannot say I drank the juice.

Likewise, if when my mother wasn’t a mother, she played soccer, cannot I say my mother played soccer but should I say my mother was a girl who played soccer?

Is there no need to relate the timing cues of the relationship in that noun phrase to the verb phrase?

Solution 1:

“My mother” is a noun phrase built on a current relationship. “Played soccer” is a verb phrase relating to the previous noun phrase. There is no need to relate the timing cues of the relationship in that noun phrase to the verb phrase.

If this was not so, your suggestion of “My mother was a girl who played soccer” would also not work for the same reason: when she was a soccer-playing girl, she wasn’t (yet) your mother.