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description: For most people the arm span from fingertip to fingertip is about the same as their height, and Leonardo da Vinci drew a famous man in a circle and a square to show such proportions. Who acts: arm span, Leonardo. A sentence of the lesson «Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronge
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# Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 11

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For most people the arm span from fingertip to fingertip is about the same as their height, and Leonardo da Vinci drew a famous man in a circle and a square to show such proportions.

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**Who acts:** arm span, Leonardo · **What happens:** be, draw, show · **To what, where:** famous man, circle, such proportions

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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 (arm span, Leonardo), 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:11
# text = For most people the arm span from fingertip to fingertip is about the same as their height, and Leonardo da Vinci drew a famous man in a circle and a square to show such proportions.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fingertip	fingertip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fingertip	fingertip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	Leonardo	Leonardo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	da	Da	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	Vinci	Vinci	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
23	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
35	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	proportions	proportion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **is** | present | the arm span from fingertip to fingertip |  |  |  |  | for most people; as People's height; about, same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | past | Leonardo | a famous man |  | a circle and a square |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in circle=Destination |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | Leonardo *not said here* | such proportions |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent proportion=Recipient |

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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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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