Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up, sentence 1

Look at the pencil marks on the kitchen door frame: each birthday line is a few centimetres higher, because soft growth plates near the ends of your long bones keep adding new bone until your late teens.

Who acts: you, birthday line, soft growth plates · What happens: look, be, keep, add · To what, where: new bone

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 (you, birthday line, soft growth plates), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 marks	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 marks	det
4	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marks	compound
5	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Look	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 frame	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 frame	det
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 frame	compound
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 frame	compound
10	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marks	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 higher	punct
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 line	det
13	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 line	compound
14	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 higher	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 higher	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 centimetres	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 centimetres	amod
18	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 higher	obl:unmarked
19	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Look	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 plates	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 keep	mark
22	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 plates	amod
23	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 plates	compound
24	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 keep	nsubj
25	near	near	ADP	_	27 ends	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ends	det
27	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 plates	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 bones	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 bones	nmod:poss
30	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bones	amod
31	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 ends	nmod
32	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 higher	advcl
33	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 keep	xcomp
34	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bone	amod
35	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 adding	obj
36	until	until	ADP	_	39 teens	case
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 teens	nmod:poss
38	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 teens	amod
39	teens	teen	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 adding	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here			at the pencil marks on the kitchen door frame	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mark=Theme
2	is	present	each birthday line			a few centimetres obl:unmarked; high property	tree rules
3	keep	present	soft growth plates near the ends of your long bones				tree rules
4	add speech: assert	gerund	soft growth plates near the ends of your long bones not said here	new bone	until your late teens		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

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:1.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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