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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 (Children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.lesson:14 # text = Children usually grow about 5 to 6 centimetres a year, faster as babies and again during the teenage years, and stop growing in their late teens or early twenties. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.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 ×2 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 usually usually ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ _ 8 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 faster faster ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 again again ADV RB _ 12 conj _ _ 17 during during ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 teenage teenage ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 xcomp _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 teens teen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 twenties twenty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | Children | 5 centimetres | | | year | faster, usually *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location centimetre=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | present | Children *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **grow** | gerund | Children *not said here* | | | Children's late teens or early twenties | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in teen=Location | 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:physics:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.lesson:14`. **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 ×2. **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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