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title: The big growth spurt of puberty can come years earlier for one child… — The kid who is always on the bench · tree and pragmatics
description: The big growth spurt of puberty can come years earlier for one child than another, and many late bloomers catch up. Who acts: big growth spurt, many late bloomers, puberty. A sentence of the lesson «The kid who is always on the bench» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# The kid who is always on the bench, sentence 12

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The big growth spurt of puberty can come years earlier for one child than another, and many late bloomers catch up.

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**Who acts:** big growth spurt, many late bloomers, puberty · **What happens:** come, catch up, spurt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The kid who is always on the bench» 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 (big growth spurt, many late bloomers, puberty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:070-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench.lesson:12
# text = The big growth spurt of puberty can come years earlier for one child than another, and many late bloomers catch up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 070-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	spurt	spurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	puberty	puberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bloomers	bloomer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **come** | can | the big growth spurt of puberty |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **catch up** | present | many late bloomers |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spurt** |  | puberty |  |  |  |  |  | nom spurt «event intransitive»: of=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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**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.

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