--- title: Muscles get stronger mostly as each fibre gets thicker, but young ch… — Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and ge… · tree and pragmatics description: Muscles get stronger mostly as each fibre gets thicker, but young children get stronger mainly because the brain learns to switch on more fibres at once. Who acts: Muscles, fibre, young children, 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 (Muscles, fibre, young children, 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:14 # text = Muscles get stronger mostly as each fibre gets thicker, but young children get stronger mainly because the brain learns to switch on more fibres at once. # 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): no change 1 Muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 xcomp _ _ 4 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 fibre fibre NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 9 thicker thick ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 xcomp _ _ 16 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 learns learn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 switch switch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 25 fibres fibre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 22 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | Muscles | | | | | mostly, strong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **get** | present | each fibre | | | | | thick *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **get** | present | young children | | | | | mainly, strong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **learn** | present | the brain | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **switch** | to-infinitive | the brain *not said here* | | | more fibres | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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:14`. **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): no change. **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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