--- title: Children grow at their own speeds, often about 5 to 6 cm a year befo… — Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "do… · tree and pragmatics description: Children grow at their own speeds, often about 5 to 6 cm a year before puberty (when a child's body starts changing into a grown-up's), with growth spurts that come especially in the teens; sleep, food and play all help. Who acts: Children, body, growth spurts, sleep. 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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, body, growth spurts, sleep), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years.lesson:6 # text = Children grow at their own speeds, often about 5 to 6 cm a year before puberty (when a child's body starts changing into a grown-up's), with growth spurts that come especially in the teens; sleep, food and play all help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 128-growing-up-ages-dog-years.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 Children child 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 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 speeds speed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 10 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nmod _ _ 13 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:unmarked _ _ 16 before before ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 puberty puberty NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl:relcl _ _ 25 changing change VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 xcomp _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 spurts spurt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 especially especially ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 teens teen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 43 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 49 all all ADV RB PronType=Tot 50 advmod _ _ 50 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 cm a year before puberty | | Children's own speeds | | with growth spurts | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location | | 2 | **start** | present | a child's body | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **change** | gerund | a child's body *not said here* | | | | | into a grown up *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into up=Result | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **come** | present | growth spurts | | | the teens | | especially *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in teen=Location | | 6 | **help** | present | sleep and food and play | | | | | all *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years.lesson:6`. **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: [Growing up: ages of people and pets, a…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/5/) - next →: [Growing up: ages of people and pets, a…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/)