--- title: Bones get longer at growth plates, soft bands near their ends; growt… — Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and ge… · tree and pragmatics description: Bones get longer at growth plates, soft bands near their ends; growth hormone, made mostly in deep sleep, tells them to grow, and food gives them the bricks. Who acts: Bones, growth hormone, food. 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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 (Bones, growth hormone, food), 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:2 # text = Bones get longer at growth plates, soft bands near their ends; growth hormone, made mostly in deep sleep, tells them to grow, and food gives them the bricks. # 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 Bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 bands band NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 10 near near ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 ends end NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 hormone hormone NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 18 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bricks brick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 . . 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 | Bones | | | growth plates and soft bands near Bones's ends | | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **make** | participle | | growth hormone *not said here* | | deep sleep | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | growth hormone | | Bones *= bone* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **grow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | growth hormone *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **give** | present | food | the bricks | Bones *= bone* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient brick=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:2`. **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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