Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 11

For most people the arm span from fingertip to fingertip is about the same as their height, and Leonardo da Vinci drew a famous man in a circle and a square to show such proportions.

Who acts: arm span, Leonardo · What happens: be, draw, show · To what, where: famous man, circle, such proportions

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 (arm span, Leonardo), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 people	case
2	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 same	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 span	det
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 span	compound
6	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 same	nsubj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 fingertip	case
8	fingertip	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 span	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 fingertip	case
10	fingertip	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fingertip	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 same	cop
12	about	about	ADV	_	14 same	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 same	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 height	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 height	nmod:poss
17	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 same	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drew	cc
20	Leonardo	Leonardo	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 drew	nsubj
21	da	Da	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Leonardo	flat
22	Vinci	Vinci	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Leonardo	flat
23	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 same	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drew	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 circle	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 circle	det
29	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drew	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 square	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 square	det
32	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 circle	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 show	mark
34	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 drew	advcl
35	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 proportions	amod
36	proportions	proportion	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 show	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 same	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the arm span from fingertip to fingertip			for most people; as People's height; about, same property	tree rules
2	draw	past	Leonardo	a famous man	a circle and a square		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in circle=Destination
3	show	to-infinitive	Leonardo not said here	such proportions			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent proportion=Recipient

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:11.

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): 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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