Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up, sentence 13

In the teenage years the voice box grows and the vocal folds get longer and thicker, so the voice gets deeper and may jump about for a while; the change is often bigger in boys.

Who acts: voice box, vocal folds, voice, change · What happens: grow, get, jump about, be

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 (voice box, vocal folds, voice, change), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 years	det
3	teenage	teenage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grows	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 box	det
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 box	compound
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grows	nsubj
8	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 get	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 folds	det
11	vocal	vocal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 folds	amod
12	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 get	nsubj
13	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 grows	conj
14	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 get	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 thicker	cc
16	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 longer	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gets	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 gets	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 voice	det
20	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gets	nsubj
21	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 grows	conj
22	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 gets	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 jump	cc
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 jump	aux
25	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 gets	conj
26	about	about	ADV	_	25 jump	advmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 while	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 while	det
29	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 jump	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 bigger	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 change	det
32	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bigger	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 bigger	cop
34	often	often	ADV	_	35 bigger	advmod
35	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 gets	advcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 boys	case
37	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 bigger	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	the voice box	year		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	present	the vocal folds		long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	get	present	the voice		deep property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	jump about	may	the voice not said here	while	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	the change		in boys; big, often property	tree rules

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:13.

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, R8-pos-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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