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title: Before puberty, girls and boys have about the same strength, and bot… — Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter · tree and pragmatics
description: Before puberty, girls and boys have about the same strength, and both get stronger with practice. Who acts: girls, both. A sentence of the lesson «Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter, sentence 15

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Before puberty, girls and boys have about the same strength, and both get stronger with practice.

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**Who acts:** girls, both · **What happens:** have, get · **To what, where:** same strength

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter» 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 (girls, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:038-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter.lesson:15
# text = Before puberty, girls and boys have about the same strength, and both get stronger with practice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 038-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	puberty	puberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
15	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **have** | present | girls and boys | the same strength |  |  | before puberty |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | present | both |  |  |  |  | with practice; strong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:038-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter.lesson:15`.

**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, R8-pos-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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