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# The human life cycle and growing up, sentence 3

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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.

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**Who acts:** Puberty, body, bones · **What happens:** start, be, change, grow, stop, get · **To what, where:** adult body

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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 (Puberty, body, bones), 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:3
# text = 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.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Puberty	puberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
26	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	_
31	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	teens	teen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	twenties	twenty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | Puberty |  |  |  |  | somewhere, usually *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | Puberty |  |  |  |  | when *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **change** | present | the body |  |  |  |  | into a adult body *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into body=Result |
| 4 | **grow** | present | the bones |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stop** | present | the bones *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **get** | gerund | the bones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the late teens or early twenties; long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:3`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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