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title: Near the ends of your long bones are growth plates, softer zones whe… — Growing and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: ends, bones. A sentence of the lesson «Growing and sport» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Growing and sport, sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** ends, bones · **What happens:** be, make, keep, work · **To what, where:** growth plates, new bone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing and sport» 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 (ends, bones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:040-growing-and-sport.lesson:1
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 040-growing-and-sport.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
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
12	softer	soft	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	zones	zone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	until	until	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	teens	teen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is a** | present | the ends of your long bones | growth plates |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | new bone |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **keep** | present | bones *= bone* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | gerund | bones *= bone* *not said here* |  |  |  | until the late teens |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:040-growing-and-sport.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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