--- title: Picture the pencil marks on a kitchen door frame, one for every birt… — Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and ge… · tree and pragmatics description: Picture the pencil marks on a kitchen door frame, one for every birthday: for years they creep up a hand's width apart, then suddenly one year the gap is twice as big. Who acts: you, marks, gap. 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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, marks, gap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:361-growing-up-growth-spurts-height-voices-and-getting-stronger.lesson:1 # text = Picture the pencil marks on a kitchen door frame, one for every birthday: for years they creep up a hand's width apart, then suddenly one year the gap is twice as big. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 361-growing-up-growth-spurts-height-voices-and-getting-stronger.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 3 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 frame frame NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 appos _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 creep creep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det 22 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 width width NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 apart apart ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 28 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 36 advmod _ _ 35 as as ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 36 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | the pencil marks | | a kitchen door frame | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent mark=Theme | | 2 | **creep up** | present | marks *= mark* | a hand's width | | | year | apart *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | the gap | | | | then; year | big, suddenly, twice *property* | tree rules | 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:361-growing-up-growth-spurts-height-voices-and-getting-stronger.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. 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