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title: Long bones grow at soft growth plates near their ends, told to work… — Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Long bones grow at soft growth plates near their ends, told to work by hormones from the pea-sized pituitary gland under the brain; when the plates harden in the late teens, a person stops getting taller. Who acts: Long bones, soft growth plates, plates, person. A sentence of the lesson «Growing: te
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# Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up, sentence 5

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Long bones grow at soft growth plates near their ends, told to work by hormones from the pea-sized pituitary gland under the brain; when the plates harden in the late teens, a person stops getting taller.

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**Who acts:** Long bones, soft growth plates, plates, person · **What happens:** grow, tell, work, size, harden, stop · **To what, where:** soft growth plates, sized pituitary gland, late teens · **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 (Long bones, soft growth plates, plates, person), 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:5
# text = Long bones grow at soft growth plates near their ends, told to work by hormones from the pea-sized pituitary gland under the brain; when the plates harden in the late teens, a person stops getting taller.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hormones	hormone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	sized	size	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
22	pituitary	pituitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	gland	gland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	under	under	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	harden	harden	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	teens	teen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
40	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	xcomp	_	_
41	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	xcomp	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Long bones |  |  | soft growth plates near bones's ends |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at plate=Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | soft growth plates near bones's ends *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **work** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | soft growth plates near bones's ends *not said here* |  |  | the sized pituitary gland under the brain |  | by hormones | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **size** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **harden** | present | the plates |  |  | the late teens |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **stop** | present | a person |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **get** | gerund | a person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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): 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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