--- title: You are about a centimetre taller in the morning than at bedtime, be… — Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and ge… · tree and pragmatics description: You are about a centimetre taller in the morning than at bedtime, because the soft discs between the bones of your back squash a little during the day. Who acts: You, soft discs. 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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 (You, soft discs), 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:5 # text = You are about a centimetre taller in the morning than at bedtime, because the soft discs between the bones of your back squash a little during the day. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 centimetre centimetre NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 than than ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 bedtime bedtime NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 discs disc NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 18 between between ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 squash squash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 27 during during ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | You | | | | morning | than bedtime; a centimetre *obl:unmarked*; tall *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **squash** | present | the soft discs between the bones of your back | a little | | | day | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=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:5`. **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): 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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