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title: Every person starts as a single tiny cell that grows inside the moth… — The human life cycle and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: person, single tiny cell. A sentence of the lesson «The human life cycle and growing up» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# The human life cycle and growing up, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** person, single tiny cell · **What happens:** start, grow · **To what, where:** womb

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The human life cycle and growing up» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, single tiny cell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:092-human-life-cycle.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 092-human-life-cycle.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cell	cell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
28	before	before	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | every person |  |  |  |  | as a single tiny cell | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | present | a single tiny cell |  |  | the mother's womb | month |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside womb=Location |

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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.

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**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:092-human-life-cycle.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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