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title: In deep sleep the body releases most of its growth hormone, and chil… — Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby t… · tree and pragmatics
description: In deep sleep the body releases most of its growth hormone, and children aged 9 to 12 need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep a night. Who acts: body, children. A sentence of the lesson «Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up, sentence 11

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In deep sleep the body releases most of its growth hormone, and children aged 9 to 12 need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep a night.

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**Who acts:** body, children · **What happens:** release, need · **To what, where:** most, deep sleep

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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 (body, children), 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:11
# text = In deep sleep the body releases most of its growth hormone, and children aged 9 to 12 need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep a night.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	releases	release	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	hormone	hormone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	acl	_	_
16	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	_
19	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
21	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **release** | present | the body | most of body's growth hormone |  | deep sleep |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer most=Source |
| 2 | **need** | present | children |  |  |  | hour; night |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.

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