Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 12
A baby's head is about a quarter of its length, but a grown-up's head is only about an eighth of their height.
Who acts: head · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: quarter, eighth
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 (head), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 baby | case |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quarter | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 quarter | cop |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 quarter | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 quarter | det |
| 8 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 length | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 length | nmod:poss |
| 11 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quarter | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 eighth | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 eighth | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 up | det |
| 15 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 up | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 grown | punct |
| 17 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 up | case |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eighth | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 eighth | cop |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 eighth | advmod |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 eighth | advmod |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 eighth | det |
| 24 | eighth | eighth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quarter | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 height | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 height | nmod:poss |
| 27 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eighth | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 quarter | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a baby's head | a quarter but a eighth | of head's length; about property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a grown up's head | a eighth | of quarter's height; about 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:12.
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 ×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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