Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up, sentence 3

In cartoons a character drinks a potion and shoots up overnight, or a fright turns hair white in a second; real growing is slow, steady and full of surprises, like being taller in the morning than at bedtime.

Who acts: character, fright, real growing · What happens: drink, shoot up, turn, be · To what, where: potion, cartoons, hair

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 (character, fright, real growing), 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	_	2 cartoons	case
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drinks	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 character	det
4	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drinks	nsubj
5	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 potion	det
7	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drinks	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shoots	cc
9	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drinks	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 shoots	compound:prt
11	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	9 shoots	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turns	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 turns	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fright	det
15	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turns	nsubj
16	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drinks	conj
17	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turns	obj
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 turns	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	24 growing	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 second	det
21	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 turns	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 second	punct
23	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 growing	amod
24	growing	growing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slow	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 slow	cop
26	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drinks	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 steady	punct
28	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 slow	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 full	cc
30	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 slow	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 surprises	case
32	surprises	surprise	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 full	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 taller	punct
34	like	like	SCONJ	_	36 taller	mark
35	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 taller	cop
36	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 slow	parataxis
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 morning	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 morning	det
39	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 taller	obl
40	than	than	ADP	_	42 bedtime	case
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 bedtime	case
42	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 taller	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drinks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	a character	a potion	cartoons			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potion=Patient
2	shoot up	present	a character not said here				overnight property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn	present	a fright	hair			a second obl; white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
4	is	present	real growing				slow property	tree rules
5	be		real growing not said here					tree rules
6	be		real growing not said here				of surprises	tree rules
7	is	gerund				morning	than bedtime; tall 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:3.

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): R5-strong ×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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