--- title: Growing and sport — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Growing and sport», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A growing child is not a small grown-up. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / Growing and sport # Growing and sport Lesson 40 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/0/) — A growing child is not a small grown-up. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/1/) — Near the ends of your long bones are growth plates, softer zones where new bone is made, and they keep working until about the late teens. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/2/) — When you shoot up 8 cm in a year, your bones race ahead and your muscles and your brain's sense of where your feet are need time to catch up, so you may trip over the ball for a while. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/3/) — Some sports aches belong to growing: a sore bump under the kneecap or sore heels can come from a tendon tugging on a growing spot. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/4/) — They settle when growing stops, and a GP can help meanwhile. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/5/) — Look at any Under-11 team photo: the tallest kid might be 25 cm taller than the smallest, just because growth spurts start at different ages. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/6/) — Messi was a small boy and became one of the greatest players ever, so judge players by skill, not size. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/7/) — When bones grow fast, muscles and the brain's sense of body position need time to catch up, so many children are clumsy for a while during a growth spurt. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/8/) — Children's long bones have growth plates near their ends; they are weaker than the bone around them, so pain near a joint after sport that doesn't settle should be seen by a doctor. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/9/) — Most growth plates close in the late teens, at about 17 or so, and adults don't have open growth plates. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/10/) — A sore bump just below the kneecap in sporty children of about 10 to 15 is often Osgood-Schlatter: a tendon pulling on a growing spot of the shin bone; it settles once growing finishes, though the bump may stay. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/11/) — Heel pain in sport in children of about 8 to 14 is often Sever's disease, the Achilles tendon pulling on the heel's growth plate; rest, cushioned shoes and less running on hard ground help. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/12/) — Growing pains are aches in both legs, usually in the evening or night and gone by morning; despite the name they aren't caused by bones growing. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/13/) — Pain in only one leg, a limp, swelling, fever, or pain during the day is not ordinary growing pains and needs a doctor. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/14/) — Children start growth spurts at different ages, so classmates of the same age can differ a lot in size, and late growers often catch up. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/15/) — Children born early in the school year can be almost a year older than classmates; some academies now group young players by maturity rather than only age, called bio-banding. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/16/) — As a boy, Lionel Messi was treated for a growth hormone problem and grew to about 1.70 m; Peter Crouch, at about 2.01 m, also played for England. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/17/) — Every body size can do sport: gymnast Simone Biles is about 1.42 m, and Muggsy Bogues played in the NBA at about 1.60 m. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/18/) — Bigger, heavier bodies are a real strength in some positions, like rugby forwards such as a prop; teasing someone about their size is never OK. - ← previous: [Sore the next day, stretching and rest days](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/39-sore-the-next-day-stretching-and-rest-days/) - next →: [Football: positions, rules and scoring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)