--- title: In the teenage years the voice box grows and the vocal folds get lon… — Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and ge… · tree and pragmatics description: In the teenage years the voice box grows and the vocal folds get longer and thicker, so the voice gets deeper and cracks while the brain learns to control them; the Adam's apple is the front of the voice box, and girls' voices drop a little too. Who acts: voice box, vocal folds, voice, brain. 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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 (voice box, vocal folds, voice, brain), 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:13 # text = In the teenage years the voice box grows and the vocal folds get longer and thicker, so the voice gets deeper and cracks while the brain learns to control them; the Adam's apple is the front of the voice box, and girls' voices drop a little too. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 teenage teenage ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 vocal vocal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 folds fold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 thicker thick ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 22 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 cracks crack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 learns learn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 control control VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Adam Adam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 46 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nmod:poss _ _ 47 ' 's PART POS _ 46 case _ _ 48 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nsubj _ _ 49 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 obj _ _ 52 too too ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=51:advmod 53 . . 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 | **grow** | present | the voice box | | | | year | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **get** | present | the vocal folds | | | | | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **get** | present | the voice | | | | | deep *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **crack** | present | the voice *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **learn** | present | the brain | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **control** | to-infinitive | the brain *not said here* | folds *= fold* | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | present | the Adam's apple | the front | | | | of the voice box | tree rules | | 8 | **drop** | present | girls's voices | a little | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=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:361-growing-up-growth-spurts-height-voices-and-getting-stronger.lesson:13`. **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, R8-pos-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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