--- title: Kids grow at very different times, so small at 10 tells little about… — The kid who is always on the bench · tree and pragmatics description: Kids grow at very different times, so small at 10 tells little about 16; meanwhile a good sub watches, cheers and stays ready, because many games are won by players coming off the bench. Who acts: Kids, good sub, players. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kids, good sub, players), 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:4 # text = Kids grow at very different times, so small at 10 tells little about 16; meanwhile a good sub watches, cheers and stays ready, because many games are won by players coming off the bench. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 12 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 14 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 17 meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 sub sub NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 cheers cheer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 players player NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl:agent _ _ 35 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 36 off off ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 bench bench NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | Kids | | | | time | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | | little | | 10 | | about 16 | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent little=Recipient about 16=Topic | | 3 | **watch** | present | a good sub | | | | | meanwhile *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cheer** | present | a good sub *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **stay** | present | a good sub *not said here* | | | | | ready *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **win** | present · passive | players | many games | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | | 7 | **come off** | gerund | players *not said here* | the bench | | | | | tree rules | 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:070-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench.lesson:4`. **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: [The kid who is always on the bench, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/70-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench/3/) - next →: [The kid who is always on the bench, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/70-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/70-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench/)