Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 15
Many children aged about 3 to 12 get aching legs in the evening called growing pains; doctors are not sure growing bones cause them, and a limp, swelling, fever or pain in one spot means seeing a doctor.
Who acts: Many children, evening, doctors, growing bones, limp · What happens: age, get, ache, call, grow, not be · To what, where: 3, aching legs, growing pains, children, doctor · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Many children, evening, doctors, growing bones), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | nsubj |
| 3 | aged | age | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 children | acl |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 3 | advmod |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 aged | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 12 | case |
| 7 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 3 | nmod |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | aching | ache | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 legs | amod |
| 10 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 evening | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 evening | det |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 evening | acl |
| 15 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 pains | amod |
| 16 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 called | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 bones | punct |
| 18 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sure | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sure | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 sure | advmod |
| 21 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 get | parataxis |
| 22 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 bones | amod |
| 23 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 cause | nsubj |
| 24 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sure | ccomp |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 cause | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 means | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 means | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 limp | det |
| 29 | limp | limp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 means | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 swelling | punct |
| 31 | swelling | swelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 limp | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fever | punct |
| 33 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 limp | conj |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 pain | cc |
| 35 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 limp | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 spot | case |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 spot | nummod |
| 38 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fever | nmod |
| 39 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | parataxis |
| 40 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 means | xcomp |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 doctor | det |
| 42 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 seeing | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | age | participle | Many children not said here | 3 to 12 | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | present | Many children | aching legs | evening | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | ache | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | call | participle | the evening not said here | growing pains | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pain=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | not is | present | doctors | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | cause | present | growing bones | children = child | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition they=Patient | ||||
| 9 | mean | present | a limp and swelling and fever in one spot or pain | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | see not said to happen | gerund | a limp and swelling and fever in one spot or pain not said here | a doctor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus |
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:15.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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