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title: Many children aged about 3 to 12 get aching legs at night that are g… — Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many children aged about 3 to 12 get aching legs at night that are gone by morning; they are called growing pains, but doctors are not sure growth causes them, as bones grow very slowly and tired muscles may be part of it, and limping, swelling or redness need a doctor. Who acts: Many children, doct
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# Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up, sentence 10

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Many children aged about 3 to 12 get aching legs at night that are gone by morning; they are called growing pains, but doctors are not sure growth causes them, as bones grow very slowly and tired muscles may be part of it, and limping, swelling or redness need a doctor.

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**Who acts:** Many children, doctors, growth, bones, tired muscles · **What happens:** age, get, ache, go, call, grow · **To what, where:** 3, aching legs, Children, doctors, part, doctor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many children, doctors, growth, bones), 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:10
# text = Many children aged about 3 to 12 get aching legs at night that are gone by morning; they are called growing pains, but doctors are not sure growth causes them, as bones grow very slowly and tired muscles may be part of it, and limping, swelling or redness need a doctor.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	aged	age	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
9	aching	ache	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:xcomp
10	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
22	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=21:punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj
30	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
37	very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
42	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	cop	_	_
44	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nmod	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	limping	limp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	parataxis	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	swelling	swelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
52	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	redness	redness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=51:conj
54	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **age** | participle | Many children *not said here* | 3 |  |  |  | to 12 | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | present | Many children | aching legs |  |  | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ache** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **go** | present · passive |  | aching legs |  |  | morning |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | present · passive |  | Children *= child* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **is** | present | doctors |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **cause** | present | growth | doctors *= doctor* |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition they=Patient |
| 9 | **grow** | present | bones |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **is a** | may | tired muscles | part |  |  |  | of growth | tree rules |
| 11 | **limp** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 12 | **need** | present | Many children *not said here* | a doctor |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme |

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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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**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:071-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up.lesson:10`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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