Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up, sentence 0

Your body is a building site that never closes: bones lengthen, teeth are swapped, hair and nails creep out, and most of the building work happens while you sleep.

Who acts: body, building site, bones, hair, most, you · What happens: be, not close, lengthen, swap, creep out, happen · To what, where: building site, teeth

This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up» 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 (body, building site, bones, hair), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 body	nmod:poss
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 site	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 site	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 site	det
5	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 site	compound
6	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 closes	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 closes	advmod
9	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 site	acl:relcl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 lengthen	punct
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lengthen	nsubj
12	lengthen	lengthen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 closes	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 swapped	punct
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 swapped	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 swapped	aux:pass
16	swapped	swap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 lengthen	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 creep	punct
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 creep	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 nails	cc
20	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hair	conj
21	creep	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lengthen	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 creep	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 happens	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 happens	cc
25	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 happens	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 work	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 work	det
28	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 work	compound
29	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 most	nmod
30	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lengthen	conj
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 sleep	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 sleep	nsubj
33	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 happens	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 site	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	Your body	a building site	tree rules
2	not close	present	a building site		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	lengthen	infinitive	bones		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	swap	present · passive		teeth	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	creep out	present	hair and nails		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	happen	present	most of the building work		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sleep	present	you		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:071-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up.lesson:0.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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.

See the release 0.4.

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