Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 5

You are about a centimetre taller in the morning than at bedtime, because the soft discs between the bones of your back squash a little during the day.

Who acts: You, soft discs · What happens: be, squash · To what, where: 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 (You, soft discs), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 taller	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 taller	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 centimetre	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 centimetre	det
5	centimetre	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taller	obl:unmarked
6	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 morning	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 morning	det
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taller	obl
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 bedtime	case
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 bedtime	case
12	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taller	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 discs	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 squash	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 discs	det
16	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 discs	amod
17	discs	disc	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 squash	nsubj
18	between	between	ADP	_	20 bones	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bones	det
20	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 discs	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 back	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 back	nmod:poss
23	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bones	nmod
24	squash	squash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 taller	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 little	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 squash	obl
27	during	during	ADP	_	29 day	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 squash	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taller	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You				morning	than bedtime; a centimetre obl:unmarked; tall property	tree rules
2	squash	present	the soft discs between the bones of your back	a little			day		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=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:5.

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): 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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