Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 1

Picture the pencil marks on a kitchen door frame, one for every birthday: for years they creep up a hand's width apart, then suddenly one year the gap is twice as big.

Who acts: you, marks, gap · What happens: picture, creep up, be · To what, where: pencil marks, kitchen door frame, width

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 (you, marks, gap), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 marks	det
3	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marks	compound
4	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Picture	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 frame	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 frame	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frame	compound
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frame	compound
9	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marks	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 frame	appos
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 birthday	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 birthday	det
14	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	nmod
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 years	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 years	case
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 creep	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 creep	nsubj
19	creep	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 creep	compound:prt
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hand	det
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 width	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 hand	case
24	width	width	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 creep	obl:unmarked
25	apart	apart	ADV	_	19 creep	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 big	punct
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 big	advmod
28	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	36 big	advmod
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 year	nummod
30	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 big	obl:unmarked
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 gap	det
32	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 big	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 big	cop
34	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	36 big	advmod
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 big	advmod
36	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Picture	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	the pencil marks	a kitchen door frame			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mark=Theme
2	creep up	present	marks = mark	a hand's width		year	apart property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	the gap			then; year	big, suddenly, twice property	tree rules

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:1.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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