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title: Most babies roughly triple their birth weight in their first year. — The human life cycle and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: Most babies roughly triple their birth weight in their first year. Who acts: Most babies. A sentence of the lesson «The human life cycle and growing up» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The human life cycle and growing up, sentence 7

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Most babies roughly triple their birth weight in their first year.

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**Who acts:** Most babies · **What happens:** triple · **To what, where:** birth weight

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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 (Most babies), 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:7
# text = Most babies roughly triple their birth weight in their first year.
# 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): no change
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	triple	triple	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **triple** | present | Most babies | baby's birth weight |  |  | year | roughly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent weight=Patient |

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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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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