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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 dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/361-growing-up-growth-spurts-height-voices-and-getting-stronger/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Growing up: growth spurts, height, voi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/361-growing-up-growth-spurts-height-voices-and-getting-stronger/) / 12 # Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 12 A baby's head is about a quarter of its length, but a grown-up's head is only about an eighth of their height. **Who acts:** head · **What happens:** be, grow · **To what, where:** quarter, eighth 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 (head), 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:12 # text = A baby's head is about a quarter of its length, but a grown-up's head is only about an eighth of their height. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 eighth eighth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 a** | present | a baby's head | a quarter but a eighth | | | | of head's length; about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | a grown up's head | a eighth | | | | of quarter's height; about *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:12`. **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 ×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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