--- title: The soft discs between the bones of the spine get squashed during th… — Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby t… · tree and pragmatics description: The soft discs between the bones of the spine get squashed during the day and puff up again at night, so most people are about 1 centimetre taller just after waking, and astronauts in space grow a few centimetres taller for a while. Who acts: most people, astronauts. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most people, astronauts), 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:6 # text = The soft discs between the bones of the spine get squashed during the day and puff up again at night, so most people are about 1 centimetre taller just after waking, and astronauts in space grow a few centimetres taller for a while. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 discs disc NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 4 between between ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 spine spine NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:aux:pass|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 squashed squash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 during during ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 puff puff VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 again again ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 23 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 about about ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 centimetre centimetre NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 29 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 amod _ _ 30 just just ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 after after SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 waking wake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 astronauts astronaut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl:unmarked _ _ 42 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 xcomp _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squash** | present · passive | | the soft discs between the bones of the spine | | | day | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **puff up** | present | | | | | again; night | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 3 | **is a** | present | most people | 1 centimetre | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wake** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **grow** | present | astronauts in space | | | | while | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:6`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, f…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/71-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up/5/) - next →: [Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, f…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/71-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/71-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up/)