--- title: Different animals grow at different speeds: a giraffe calf stands an… — Life begins: being born and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: Different animals grow at different speeds: a giraffe calf stands and walks within about an hour, but a human baby needs about a year. Who acts: Different animals, giraffe calf, human baby. 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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 (Different animals, giraffe calf, human baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.lesson:9 # text = Different animals grow at different speeds: a giraffe calf stands and walks within about an hour, but a human baby needs about a year. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.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 Different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 speeds speed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 calf calf NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 14 within within ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 . . 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 | Different animals | | | different speeds | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location | | 2 | **stand** | present | a giraffe calf | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **walk** | present | a giraffe calf *not said here* | | | | hour | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **need** | present | a human baby | | | | year | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.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): 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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