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title: Feet grow fast in childhood, often a size or more a year, and usuall… — Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Feet grow fast in childhood, often a size or more a year, and usually stop growing in the early to mid teens, before the rest of the body. Who acts: Feet. 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 14

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Feet grow fast in childhood, often a size or more a year, and usually stop growing in the early to mid teens, before the rest of the body.

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**Who acts:** Feet · **What happens:** grow, stop · **To what, where:** childhood, mid teens

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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 (Feet), 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:14
# text = Feet grow fast in childhood, often a size or more a year, and usually stop growing in the early to mid teens, before the rest of the body.
# 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 ×4
1	Feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:cc
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:case
23	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	24	compound	_	_
24	teens	teen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **grow** | present | Feet |  |  | childhood |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in childhood=Location |
| 2 | **stop** | present | Feet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | Feet *not said here* | mid teens before the rest of the body |  |  |  | early *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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 ×4. **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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