--- title: When bones grow fast, muscles and the brain's sense of body position… — Growing and sport · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: bones, muscles, many children, brain. A sentence of the lesson «Growing and sport» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with --- [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/7/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/) / 7 # Growing and sport, sentence 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. **Who acts:** bones, muscles, many children, brain · **What happens:** grow, need, catch up, be, sense · **To what, where:** body position 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 (bones, muscles, many children, brain), 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:7 # text = 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. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 4 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 position position NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 clumsy clumsy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 during during ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 spurt spurt NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | bones | | | | | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **need** | present | muscles and the brain's sense of body position | | | | time | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **catch up** | to-infinitive | muscles and the brain's sense of body position *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | many children | | | | during a growth spurt; while | clumsy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **sense** | | the brain | body position | | | | | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | 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. **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:7`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Growing and sport, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/6/) - next →: [Growing and sport, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/)