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title: Look at any Under-11 team photo: the tallest kid might be 25 cm tall… — Growing and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: you, tallest kid, growth spurts. A sentence of the lesson «Growing and sport» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Growing and sport, sentence 5

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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.

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**Who acts:** you, tallest kid, growth spurts · **What happens:** look, be, start · **To what, where:** different ages

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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 (you, tallest kid, growth spurts), 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:5
# text = 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.
# 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	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
4	Under	Under	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
7	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
15	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	parataxis	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	spurts	spurt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at any Under team photo | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at photo=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | might | the tallest kid |  |  |  |  | than the smallest; 25 cm *obl:unmarked*; tall *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **start** | present | growth spurts |  |  |  | at different ages |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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**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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