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title: Everyone grows at their own speed: some children grow tall early and… — Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Everyone grows at their own speed: some children grow tall early and some later, and both are normal, so teasing someone about it is unkind and wrong. Who acts: Everyone, children, both, teasing. A sentence of the lesson «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growin
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# Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed, sentence 4

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Everyone grows at their own speed: some children grow tall early and some later, and both are normal, so teasing someone about it is unkind and wrong.

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**Who acts:** Everyone, children, both, teasing · **What happens:** grow, be, tease · **To what, where:** own speed, someone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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 (Everyone, children, both, teasing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing.lesson:4
# text = Everyone grows at their own speed: some children grow tall early and some later, and both are normal, so teasing someone about it is unkind and wrong.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
11	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
23	teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	csubj	_	_
24	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:mark
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Everyone |  |  | people's own speed |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location |
| 2 | **grow** | present | some children |  |  |  |  | early, late, tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | both |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tease** | gerund |  | someone |  |  |  | about speed | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | teasing |  |  |  |  | unkind *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | teasing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing.lesson:4`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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