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title: Growing pains are aches in both legs, usually in the evening or nigh… — Growing and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Growing pains, bones. A sentence of the lesson «Growing and sport» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Growing and sport, sentence 12

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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.

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**Who acts:** Growing pains, bones · **What happens:** grow, be, go, not cause · **To what, where:** aches, legs, rest

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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 (Growing pains, 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:12
# text = 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.
# 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): no change
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	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  | evening |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Growing pains | aches |  | both legs |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | participle |  |  |  |  | morning |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **cause** | present · passive | bones | rest |  |  |  | despite the name | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
| 5 | **grow** | gerund | bones *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:12`.

**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): no change. **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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