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title: Height comes mostly from hundreds of genes from both parents, plus f… — Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and ge… · tree and pragmatics
description: Height comes mostly from hundreds of genes from both parents, plus food, sleep and health; a body that is often hungry or ill grows less, which doctors call stunting. Who acts: Height, body, doctors. A sentence of the lesson «Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger» of the bio
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# Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 9

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Height comes mostly from hundreds of genes from both parents, plus food, sleep and health; a body that is often hungry or ill grows less, which doctors call stunting.

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**Who acts:** Height, body, doctors · **What happens:** come, be, grow, call, stunt · **To what, where:** hundreds · **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 (Height, body, doctors), 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:9
# text = Height comes mostly from hundreds of genes from both parents, plus food, sleep and health; a body that is often hungry or ill grows less, which doctors call stunting.
# 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
1	Height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	genes	gene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	often	often	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
31	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	stunting	stunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	xcomp	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **come** | present | Height |  |  | hundreds of genes from both parents plus food and sleep and health |  | mostly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from hundred=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | a body |  |  |  |  | hungry, often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | a body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | present | a body |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | present | doctors |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **stunt** | gerund | doctors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R5-strong ×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.

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

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