Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 17
The brain keeps rewiring until about 25, and the front part that plans and stops you doing silly things finishes last, which scientists think may be one reason teenagers take more risks.
Who acts: brain, front part, you, scientists, teenagers · What happens: keep, rewire, plan, stop, do, finish · To what, where: silly things, one reason, more risks · 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 (brain, front part, you, scientists), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brain | det |
| 2 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rewiring | rewire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 keeps | xcomp |
| 5 | until | until | ADP | _ | 7 25 | case |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 25 | advmod |
| 7 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 rewiring | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 part | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 part | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 part | det |
| 11 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 part | amod |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 finishes | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 plans | nsubj |
| 14 | plans | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 part | acl:relcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stops | cc |
| 16 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 plans | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 doing | nsubj |
| 18 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 stops | ccomp |
| 19 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 things | amod |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 doing | obj |
| 21 | finishes | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 keeps | conj |
| 22 | last | last | ADV | _ | 21 finishes | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 think | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 reason | nsubj |
| 25 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 think | nsubj |
| 26 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 plans | conj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 reason | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 reason | cop |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 reason | nummod |
| 30 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 think | ccomp |
| 31 | teenagers | teenager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 take | nsubj |
| 32 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 reason | acl:relcl |
| 33 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 risks | amod |
| 34 | risks | risk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 take | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | the brain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rewire | gerund | the brain not said here | until 25 | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | plan | present | the front part | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stop | present | the front part not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | do | gerund | you | silly things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | finish | present | the front part | last property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | think speech: other | present | scientists | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is a | may | one reason | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | take | present | teenagers | more risks | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent risk=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:17.
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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