Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 0

Growing up is not one smooth climb: you grow slowly and steadily for years, then shoot up fast as a teenager, and then you stop for good.

Who acts: Growing, you · What happens: grow up, not be, grow, shoot up, stop · To what, where: one smooth climb

This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger» 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 (Growing, 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	Growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 climb	csubj
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Growing	compound:prt
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 climb	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 climb	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 climb	nummod
6	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 climb	amod
7	climb	climb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 grow	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 grow	nsubj
10	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 climb	parataxis
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	10 grow	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 steadily	cc
13	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	11 slowly	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grow	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shoot	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 shoot	advmod
18	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 grow	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 shoot	compound:prt
20	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 shoot	advmod
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 teenager	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 teenager	det
23	teenager	teenager	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shoot	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stop	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stop	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 stop	advmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 stop	nsubj
28	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 climb	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 good	case
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stop	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 climb	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	gerund					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is a	present	Growing	one smooth climb			tree rules
3	grow	present	you		year	slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shoot up	present	you not said here		then	as a teenager; fast property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stop	present	you		then	for good	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:361-growing-up-growth-spurts-height-voices-and-getting-stronger.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, 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.

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