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title: Many children aged about 3 to 12 get aching legs in the evening call… — Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and ge… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many children aged about 3 to 12 get aching legs in the evening called growing pains; doctors are not sure growing bones cause them, and a limp, swelling, fever or pain in one spot means seeing a doctor. Who acts: Many children, evening, doctors, growing bones. A sentence of the lesson «Growing up: 
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# Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 15

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Many children aged about 3 to 12 get aching legs in the evening called growing pains; doctors are not sure growing bones cause them, and a limp, swelling, fever or pain in one spot means seeing a doctor.

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**Who acts:** Many children, evening, doctors, growing bones, limp · **What happens:** age, get, ache, call, grow, not be · **To what, where:** 3, aching legs, growing pains, children, doctor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many children, evening, doctors, growing bones), 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:15
# text = Many children aged about 3 to 12 get aching legs in the evening called growing pains; doctors are not sure growing bones cause them, and a limp, swelling, fever or pain in one spot means seeing a doctor.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	aged	age	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	aching	ache	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl	_	_
15	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
22	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	limp	limp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	swelling	swelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=33:conj
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
39	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
40	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:ccomp
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **age** | participle | Many children *not said here* | 3 to 12 |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | present | Many children | aching legs |  |  | evening |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ache** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **call** | participle | the evening *not said here* | growing pains |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pain=Recipient |
| 5 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **is** | present | doctors |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **cause** | present | growing bones | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition they=Patient |
| 9 | **mean** | present | a limp and swelling and fever in one spot or pain |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 10 | **see** *not said to happen* | gerund | a limp and swelling and fever in one spot or pain *not said here* | a doctor |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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