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title: In cartoons a character drinks a potion and shoots up overnight, or… — Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby t… · tree and pragmatics
description: In cartoons a character drinks a potion and shoots up overnight, or a fright turns hair white in a second; real growing is slow, steady and full of surprises, like being taller in the morning than at bedtime. Who acts: character, fright, real growing. A sentence of the lesson «Growing: teeth, height
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# Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up, sentence 3

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In cartoons a character drinks a potion and shoots up overnight, or a fright turns hair white in a second; real growing is slow, steady and full of surprises, like being taller in the morning than at bedtime.

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**Who acts:** character, fright, real growing · **What happens:** drink, shoot up, turn, be · **To what, where:** potion, cartoons, hair

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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 (character, fright, real growing), 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:3
# text = In cartoons a character drinks a potion and shoots up overnight, or a fright turns hair white in a second; real growing is slow, steady and full of surprises, like being taller in the morning than at bedtime.
# 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 ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drinks	drink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	potion	potion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	shoots	shoot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det
21	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	growing	growing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	surprises	surprise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	cop	_	_
36	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	parataxis	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	than	than	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **drink** | present | a character | a potion |  | cartoons |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potion=Patient |
| 2 | **shoot up** | present | a character *not said here* |  |  |  |  | overnight *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn** | present | a fright | hair |  |  |  | a second *obl*; white *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | real growing |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | real growing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | real growing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of surprises | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  | morning | than bedtime; tall *property* | tree rules |

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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:3`.

**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 ×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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