Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 2
Bones get longer at growth plates, soft bands near their ends; growth hormone, made mostly in deep sleep, tells them to grow, and food gives them the bricks.
Who acts: Bones, growth hormone, food · What happens: get, make, tell, grow, give · To what, where: growth plates, growth hormone, deep sleep, Bones, bricks · 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 (Bones, growth hormone, food), 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 | Bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | nsubj |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 get | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 plates | case |
| 5 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plates | compound |
| 6 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bands | punct |
| 8 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bands | amod |
| 9 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 plates | conj |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 ends | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ends | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bands | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 hormone | punct |
| 14 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hormone | compound |
| 15 | hormone | hormone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tells | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 hormone | acl |
| 18 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 21 sleep | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 sleep | case |
| 20 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sleep | amod |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tells | punct |
| 23 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 get | parataxis |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tells | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 grow | mark |
| 26 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tells | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gives | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 gives | cc |
| 29 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gives | nsubj |
| 30 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 tells | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gives | iobj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bricks | det |
| 33 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gives | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Bones | growth plates and soft bands near Bones's ends | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | make | participle | growth hormone not said here | deep sleep | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | growth hormone | Bones = bone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | grow not said to happen | to-infinitive | growth hormone not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | give | present | food | the bricks | Bones = bone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient brick=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:2.
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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