Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 10
People in the Netherlands grew about 20 centimetres taller on average over about 150 years, mostly thanks to better food and health.
Who acts: People · What happens: grow · To what, where: thanks
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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Netherlands | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Netherlands | det |
| 4 | Netherlands | Netherlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 People | nmod |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 20 | advmod |
| 7 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 centimetres | nummod |
| 8 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 taller | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 average | case |
| 11 | average | average | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taller | obl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 150 | advmod |
| 14 | 150 | 150 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thanks | punct |
| 17 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 18 thanks | advmod |
| 18 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 food | case |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 food | amod |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thanks | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 health | cc |
| 23 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 food | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | People in the Netherlands | thanks to better food and health | year | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:10.
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. 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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