--- title: Babies grow faster than at any other time: most babies roughly tripl… — The human life cycle and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Babies, most babies, brains, 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 (Babies, most babies, brains, baby), 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:2 # text = 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. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ _ 4 than than ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 11 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 roughly roughly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 triple triple VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 19 amod _ _ 19 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=33:conj 36 . . 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 | Babies | | | | | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **triple** | present | most babies | baby's weight | | | year | roughly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent weight=Patient | | 3 | **grow** | present | baby's brains | | | | | quickly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **learn** | present | baby | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **move** | to-infinitive | baby *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **understand** | infinitive | baby *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | baby *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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:092-human-life-cycle.lesson:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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: [The human life cycle and growing up, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/1/) - next →: [The human life cycle and growing up, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/)