--- title: The human life cycle and growing up — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The human life cycle and growing up», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every person starts as a single tiny cell that grows inside the mother's womb, a special place in her belly, for about nine months befor --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / The human life cycle and growing up # The human life cycle and growing up Lesson 92 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/92-human-life-cycle/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/0/) — Every person starts as a single tiny cell that grows inside the mother's womb, a special place in her belly, for about nine months before birth. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/1/) — After birth a person passes through stages: baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult and old age; at each stage the body and the mind change. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/2/) — Babies grow faster than at any other time: most babies roughly triple their weight in their first year, and their brains grow very quickly as they learn to move, understand and speak. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/3/) — Puberty, which usually starts somewhere between about 8 and 14, is when the body changes into an adult body; the bones grow quickly and then stop getting longer by the late teens or early twenties. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/4/) — Example: you have features from both your parents — perhaps your mother's eyes and your father's hair — because you get instructions called genes from each of them. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/5/) — A baby grows inside its mother's womb for about nine months before it is born. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/6/) — The stages of human life are baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult and old age. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/7/) — Most babies roughly triple their birth weight in their first year. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/8/) — A newborn baby has more bones than an adult, because some bones join together as we grow. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/9/) — Children have 20 baby teeth, and most adults have 32 permanent teeth. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/10/) — Puberty is the time when a child's body changes into an adult's body. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/11/) — Puberty starts at different ages for different people, and girls often start earlier than boys. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/13/) — Children get genes from both parents, which is why they look a little like each of them. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/14/) — As people grow old their skin becomes less stretchy and their bones can become weaker. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/15/) — Humans need adults to care for them for many years, much longer than most animals. - ← previous: [Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/91-being-a-scientist/) - next →: [Lungs, air and keeping fit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/93-lungs-air-keeping-fit/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)