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title: Most growth plates close in the late teens, at about 17 or so, and a… — Growing and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: Most growth plates close in the late teens, at about 17 or so, and adults don't have open growth plates. Who acts: Most growth plates, adults. A sentence of the lesson «Growing and sport» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Growing and sport, sentence 9

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Most growth plates close in the late teens, at about 17 or so, and adults don't have open growth plates.

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**Who acts:** Most growth plates, adults · **What happens:** close, not have · **To what, where:** open growth plates

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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 (Most growth plates, adults), 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:9
# text = Most growth plates close in the late teens, at about 17 or so, and adults don't have open growth plates.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	close	close	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	teens	teen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **close** | present | Most growth plates |  |  |  |  | at 17; in the late teens | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in teen=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | adults | open growth plates |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient |

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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:9`.

**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): R6-punct-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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