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title: A child's height and weight are plotted on a growth chart to check t… — The GP, the family doctor and the nurse · tree and pragmatics
description: A child's height and weight are plotted on a growth chart to check they are growing well, and being a different size from friends is usually normal. Who acts: height. A sentence of the lesson «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# The GP, the family doctor and the nurse, sentence 8

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A child's height and weight are plotted on a growth chart to check they are growing well, and being a different size from friends is usually normal.

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**Who acts:** height · **What happens:** plot, check, grow, be · **To what, where:** height, growth chart, different size

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» of the medicine 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 (height), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:025-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse.lesson:8
# text = A child's height and weight are plotted on a growth chart to check they are growing well, and being a different size from friends is usually normal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 025-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	plotted	plot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	chart	chart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	ccomp	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	csubj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **plot** | present · passive |  | a child's height and weight |  | a growth chart |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on chart=Destination |
| 2 | **check** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | present · progressive | height |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | gerund |  | a different size |  |  |  | from friends | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | normal, usually *property* | 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:medicine:025-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse.lesson:8`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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