Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 13
In the teenage years the voice box grows and the vocal folds get longer and thicker, so the voice gets deeper and cracks while the brain learns to control them; the Adam's apple is the front of the voice box, and girls' voices drop a little too.
Who acts: voice box, vocal folds, voice, brain, apple, voices · What happens: grow, get, crack, learn, control, be · To what, where: folds, front, little
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 (voice box, vocal folds, voice, brain), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 years | det |
| 3 | teenage | teenage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grows | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 box | det |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 box | compound |
| 7 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grows | nsubj |
| 8 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 folds | det |
| 11 | vocal | vocal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 folds | amod |
| 12 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 get | nsubj |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 grows | conj |
| 14 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 get | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thicker | cc |
| 16 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 longer | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gets | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 gets | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 voice | det |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gets | nsubj |
| 21 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | advcl |
| 22 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 gets | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cracks | cc |
| 24 | cracks | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 gets | conj |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 learns | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 brain | det |
| 27 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 learns | nsubj |
| 28 | learns | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 gets | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 control | mark |
| 30 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 learns | xcomp |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 control | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 front | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Adam | det |
| 34 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 apple | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 Adam | case |
| 36 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 front | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 front | cop |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 front | det |
| 39 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grows | parataxis |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 box | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 box | det |
| 42 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 box | compound |
| 43 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 front | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 drop | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 drop | cc |
| 46 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 voices | nmod:poss |
| 47 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 46 girls | case |
| 48 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 drop | nsubj |
| 49 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 front | conj |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 little | det |
| 51 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 drop | obj |
| 52 | too | too | ADV | _ | 49 drop | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | the voice box | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | present | the vocal folds | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | get | present | the voice | deep property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | crack | present | the voice not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | learn | present | the brain | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | control | to-infinitive | the brain not said here | folds = fold | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | the Adam's apple | the front | of the voice box | tree rules | |||
| 8 | drop | present | girls's voices | a little | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=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:13.
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, R8-pos-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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