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title: Growing pains are aches in both legs in the evening or night in chil… — Sprains, strains and bruises · tree and pragmatics
description: Growing pains are aches in both legs in the evening or night in children aged about 3 to 12; nobody is sure of the cause, but it is not bones growing too fast; leg pain with swelling, a limp or a fever is not growing pains and needs a doctor. Who acts: Growing pains, children, nobody, pain. A senten
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# Sprains, strains and bruises, sentence 13

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Growing pains are aches in both legs in the evening or night in children aged about 3 to 12; nobody is sure of the cause, but it is not bones growing too fast; leg pain with swelling, a limp or a fever is not growing pains and needs a doctor.

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**Who acts:** Growing pains, children, nobody, pain, bones · **What happens:** grow, be, age, not be, not grow, need · **To what, where:** aches, legs, 3, bones, pains, doctor

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sprains, strains and bruises» 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 (Growing pains, children, nobody, pain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:003-sprains-strains-and-bruises.lesson:13
# text = Growing pains are aches in both legs in the evening or night in children aged about 3 to 12; nobody is sure of the cause, but it is not bones growing too fast; leg pain with swelling, a limp or a fever is not growing pains and needs a doctor.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 003-sprains-strains-and-bruises.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	amod	_	_
2	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	aches	ache	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	aged	age	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
33	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	too	too	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	swelling	swelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	limp	limp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
50	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Growing pains | aches |  | both legs | evening |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **age** | participle | children *not said here* | 3 to 12 |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  | of the cause; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | pain | bones and leg pain with swelling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** | gerund | bones and leg pain with swelling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **grow** | present · progressive | bones and leg pain with swelling | pains |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pain=Theme |
| 8 | **need** | present | bones and leg pain with swelling *not said here* | a doctor |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=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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**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, 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.

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