--- title: In the teenage growth spurt children can grow about 8 to 10 centimet… — Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and ge… · tree and pragmatics description: In the teenage growth spurt children can grow about 8 to 10 centimetres in a year; feet and hands grow first, then legs, then the body, and shoe size often stops changing a year or two before height. Who acts: children, feet, shoe size. 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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 (children, feet, shoe size), 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:8 # text = In the teenage growth spurt children can grow about 8 to 10 centimetres in a year; feet and hands grow first, then legs, then the body, and shoe size often stops changing a year or two before height. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 teenage teenage ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 spurt spurt NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 6 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nmod _ _ 13 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 22 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 21 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 often often ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 36 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 xcomp _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 conj _ _ 41 before before ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:obl 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | can | children | 8 centimetres | | the teenage growth spurt | year | legs and the body *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location centimetre=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | present | feet and hands | | | | | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stop** | present | shoe size | | | | | often *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **change** | gerund | shoe size *not said here* | | | | before height; year | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. 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