Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby, sentence 13

Growth plates near the ends of bones are where the bones grow longer; they show as dark lines on an X-ray and close in the late teens, after which you stop getting taller.

Who acts: Growth plates, bones, you · What happens: be, grow, show, close, stop, get

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby» of the biology 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 (Growth plates, bones, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plates	compound
2	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 where	nsubj
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 ends	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ends	det
5	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 plates	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 bones	case
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ends	nmod
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 where	cop
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 show	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bones	det
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grow	nsubj
12	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 where	advcl
13	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 grow	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 show	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 show	nsubj
16	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 lines	case
18	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lines	amod
19	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 show	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	24 ray	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 ray	det
22	X	x	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ray	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 X	punct
24	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lines	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 close	cc
26	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 show	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 teens	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 teens	det
29	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 teens	amod
30	teens	teen	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 close	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 stop	punct
32	after	after	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 stop	obl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 stop	nsubj
35	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 show	parataxis
36	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 stop	xcomp
37	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 getting	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 where	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Growth plates near the ends of bones	where property	tree rules
2	grow	present	the bones	long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	show	present	bones = bone	as dark lines on a X ray	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	close	present	bones = bone not said here	in the late teens	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in teen=Topic
5	stop	present	you		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	get	gerund	you not said here	tall property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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, 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:biology:359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby.lesson:13.

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, R6-punct-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.

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