--- title: You are about a centimetre taller in the morning, because the soft d… — The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin · tree and pragmatics description: You are about a centimetre taller in the morning, because the soft discs between your spine bones squash a little during the day and spring back at night; astronauts grow a few centimetres taller in space, where no gravity presses the discs down. Who acts: You, soft discs, astronauts, gravity. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, soft discs, astronauts, gravity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin.lesson:9 # text = You are about a centimetre taller in the morning, because the soft discs between your spine bones squash a little during the day and spring back at night; astronauts grow a few centimetres taller in space, where no gravity presses the discs down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin.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 ×4 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 centimetre centimetre NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 discs disc NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 15 between between ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 spine spine NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 19 squash squash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 during during ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 spring spring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 back back ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 astronauts astronaut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 xcomp _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 43 advmod _ _ 41 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 42 det _ _ 42 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 presses press VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 discs disc NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 46 down down ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | You | | | | morning | a centimetre *obl:unmarked*; tall *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **squash** | present | the soft discs between your spine bones | a little | | | day | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **spring back** | present | the soft discs between your spine bones *not said here* | | | | night | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | present | astronauts | | | | | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **press down** | present | no gravity | the discs | | | | down *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disc=Theme | 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. **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:biology:263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin.lesson:9`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [The human body deeper: bones, muscles…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin/8/) - next →: [The human body deeper: bones, muscles…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin/)