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title: Children start growth spurts at different ages, so classmates of the… — Growing and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Children, classmates, late growers. A sentence of the lesson «Growing and sport» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Growing and sport, sentence 14

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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.

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**Who acts:** Children, classmates, late growers · **What happens:** start, differ, catch up · **To what, where:** growth spurts, different ages, lot, size

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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 (Children, classmates, late growers), 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:14
# text = 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.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	spurts	spurt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
10	classmates	classmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	differ	differ	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc
23	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	growers	grower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **start** | present | Children | growth spurts |  |  | at different ages |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spurt=Eventuality |
| 2 | **differ** | can | classmates of the same age | a lot |  | size |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **catch up** | present | late growers |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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:14`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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