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title: People in the Netherlands grew about 20 centimetres taller on averag… — Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and ge… · tree and pragmatics
description: People in the Netherlands grew about 20 centimetres taller on average over about 150 years, mostly thanks to better food and health. Who acts: People. A sentence of the lesson «Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 10

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People in the Netherlands grew about 20 centimetres taller on average over about 150 years, mostly thanks to better food and health.

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**Who acts:** People · **What happens:** grow · **To what, where:** thanks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger» of the biology 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 (People), 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:10
# text = People in the Netherlands grew about 20 centimetres taller on average over about 150 years, mostly thanks to better food and health.
# 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 ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | People in the Netherlands | thanks to better food and health |  |  | year | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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 ×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.

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