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title: Between about 4 years old and the teenage years most children grow a… — Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and ge… · tree and pragmatics
description: Between about 4 years old and the teenage years most children grow about 5 to 6 centimetres a year, and growth hormone is let out mostly during deep sleep at night. Who acts: most children. A sentence of the lesson «Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger» of the biology cours
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# Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 4

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Between about 4 years old and the teenage years most children grow about 5 to 6 centimetres a year, and growth hormone is let out mostly during deep sleep at night.

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**Who acts:** most children · **What happens:** grow, let out · **To what, where:** old, growth hormone

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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 (most children), 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:4
# text = Between about 4 years old and the teenage years most children grow about 5 to 6 centimetres a year, and growth hormone is let out mostly during deep sleep at night.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	teenage	teenage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
22	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	hormone	hormone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	during	during	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **grow** | present | most children | old and the teenage years |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location centimetre=Theme |
| 2 | **let out** | present · passive |  | growth hormone |  |  | during deep sleep at night |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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**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:4`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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