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title: Children's long bones have growth plates near their ends; they are w… — Growing and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: Children's long bones have growth plates near their ends; they are weaker than the bone around them, so pain near a joint after sport that doesn't settle should be seen by a doctor. Who acts: long bones, bones, sport, doctor. A sentence of the lesson «Growing and sport» of the medicine course of Mov
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# Growing and sport, sentence 8

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Children's long bones have growth plates near their ends; they are weaker than the bone around them, so pain near a joint after sport that doesn't settle should be seen by a doctor.

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**Who acts:** long bones, bones, sport, doctor · **What happens:** have, be, not settle, see · **To what, where:** growth plates, ends, pain

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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 (long bones, bones, sport, doctor), 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:8
# text = Children's long bones have growth plates near their ends; they are weaker than the bone around them, so pain near a joint after sport that doesn't settle should be seen by a doctor.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	around	around	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj
23	near	near	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	joint	joint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obl
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **have** | present | Children's long bones | growth plates |  |  | near bones's ends |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | bones *= bone* |  |  |  |  | than the bone around ends; weak *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **settle** | present · do-support | sport |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | should · passive | a doctor | pain near a joint after sport |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |

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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:8`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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