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title: Every body grows at its own pace: growth spurts come at different ag… — Growing, seeing and hearing · tree and pragmatics
description: Every body grows at its own pace: growth spurts come at different ages, so friends of the same age can be very different heights. Who acts: body, growth spurts, friends. A sentence of the lesson «Growing, seeing and hearing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Growing, seeing and hearing, sentence 0

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Every body grows at its own pace: growth spurts come at different ages, so friends of the same age can be very different heights.

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**Who acts:** body, growth spurts, friends · **What happens:** grow, come, be · **To what, where:** different ages, different heights

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, seeing and hearing» of the everyday 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 (body, growth spurts, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.lesson:0
# text = Every body grows at its own pace: growth spurts come at different ages, so friends of the same age can be very different heights.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.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	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	spurts	spurt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
17	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	heights	height	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **grow** | present | every body |  |  |  |  | at body's own pace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Location |
| 2 | **come** | present | growth spurts |  |  |  | at different ages |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at age=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | can | friends of the same age | different heights |  |  |  |  | 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:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.lesson:0`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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