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title: Babies usually walk on their own somewhere between about 9 and 18 mo… — Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Babies usually walk on their own somewhere between about 9 and 18 months, while a foal or a baby giraffe stands within an hour of birth; a human baby's brain still has a lot of growing to do, and it must learn balance. Who acts: Babies, foal, brain, lot. A sentence of the lesson «Growing: teeth, hei
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# Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up, sentence 12

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Babies usually walk on their own somewhere between about 9 and 18 months, while a foal or a baby giraffe stands within an hour of birth; a human baby's brain still has a lot of growing to do, and it must learn balance.

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**Who acts:** Babies, foal, brain, lot · **What happens:** walk, stand, have, grow, do, learn · **To what, where:** own, lot, balance

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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 (Babies, foal, brain, lot), 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:12
# text = Babies usually walk on their own somewhere between about 9 and 18 months, while a foal or a baby giraffe stands within an hour of birth; a human baby's brain still has a lot of growing to do, and it must learn balance.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	walk	walk	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
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
7	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nummod
13	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
23	within	within	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	still	still	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
47	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **walk** | present | Babies |  |  | Children's own |  | between 9 and months; somewhere, usually *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stand** | present | a foal or a baby giraffe |  |  |  | hour |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | a human baby's brain | a lot |  |  | still |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |
| 4 | **grow** | gerund | a lot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | a lot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **learn** | must | brain | balance |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Topic |

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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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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