Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 14

Muscles get stronger mostly as each fibre gets thicker, but young children get stronger mainly because the brain learns to switch on more fibres at once.

Who acts: Muscles, fibre, young children, brain · What happens: get, learn, switch · To what, where: more fibres

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 (Muscles, fibre, young children, 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	Muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 get	xcomp
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	2 get	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 gets	mark
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 fibre	det
7	fibre	fibre	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	nsubj
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 get	advcl
9	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 gets	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 get	cc
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 children	amod
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 get	nsubj
14	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 get	conj
15	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 get	xcomp
16	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 learns	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 brain	det
19	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 learns	nsubj
20	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 get	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 switch	mark
22	switch	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 learns	xcomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 fibres	case
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 fibres	amod
25	fibres	fibre	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 switch	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 once	case
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 switch	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	get	present	Muscles		mostly, strong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	get	present	each fibre		thick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	get	present	young children		mainly, strong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	learn	present	the brain			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	switch	to-infinitive	the brain not said here	more fibres		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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:14.

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): no change. 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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