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title: Look at the pencil marks on the kitchen door frame: each birthday li… — Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Look at the pencil marks on the kitchen door frame: each birthday line is a few centimetres higher, because soft growth plates near the ends of your long bones keep adding new bone until your late teens. Who acts: you, birthday line, soft growth plates. A sentence of the lesson «Growing: teeth, heig
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# Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up, sentence 1

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Look at the pencil marks on the kitchen door frame: each birthday line is a few centimetres higher, because soft growth plates near the ends of your long bones keep adding new bone until your late teens.

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**Who acts:** you, birthday line, soft growth plates · **What happens:** look, be, keep, add · **To what, where:** new bone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up» 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 (you, birthday line, soft growth plates), 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:1
# text = Look at the pencil marks on the kitchen door frame: each birthday line is a few centimetres higher, because soft growth plates near the ends of your long bones keep adding new bone until your late teens.
# 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): no change
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	pencil	pencil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	parataxis	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
22	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
25	near	near	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
33	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	xcomp	_	_
34	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	until	until	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	teens	teen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the pencil marks on the kitchen door frame | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mark=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | each birthday line |  |  |  |  | a few centimetres *obl:unmarked*; high *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | present | soft growth plates near the ends of your long bones |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | soft growth plates near the ends of your long bones *not said here* | new bone |  |  | until your late teens |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |

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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): no change. **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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