--- title: Your body is a building site that never closes: bones lengthen, teet… — Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby t… · tree and pragmatics description: Your body is a building site that never closes: bones lengthen, teeth are swapped, hair and nails creep out, and most of the building work happens while you sleep. Who acts: body, building site, bones, hair. 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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 (body, building site, bones, hair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:071-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up.lesson:0 # text = Your body is a building site that never closes: bones lengthen, teeth are swapped, hair and nails creep out, and most of the building work happens while you sleep. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 071-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up.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, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 site site NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 8 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 closes close VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 lengthen lengthen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 swapped swap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 18 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 20 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 creep creep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 25 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 31 while while SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 34 . . 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 a** | present | Your body | a building site | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **close** | present | a building site | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **lengthen** | infinitive | bones | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **swap** | present · passive | | teeth | | | | | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **creep out** | present | hair and nails | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **happen** | present | most of the building work | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **sleep** | present | you | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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