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title: A short child may grow a lot later, and a tall child may stop growin… — Growing, seeing and hearing · tree and pragmatics
description: A short child may grow a lot later, and a tall child may stop growing earlier. Who acts: short child, tall child. A sentence of the lesson «Growing, seeing and hearing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Growing, seeing and hearing, sentence 7

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A short child may grow a lot later, and a tall child may stop growing earlier.

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**Who acts:** short child, tall child · **What happens:** grow, stop

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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 (short child, tall child), 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:7
# text = A short child may grow a lot later, and a tall child may stop growing earlier.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | may | a short child |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | may | a tall child |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | a tall child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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