Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up, sentence 6
The soft discs between the bones of the spine get squashed during the day and puff up again at night, so most people are about 1 centimetre taller just after waking, and astronauts in space grow a few centimetres taller for a while.
Who acts: most people, astronauts · What happens: squash, puff up, be, wake, grow · To what, where: soft discs, 1 centimetre
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 (most people, astronauts), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 discs | det |
| 2 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 discs | amod |
| 3 | discs | disc | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 squashed | nsubj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 bones | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bones | det |
| 6 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 discs | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 spine | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spine | det |
| 9 | spine | spine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bones | nmod |
| 10 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 squashed | aux:pass |
| 11 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 squashed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 puff | cc |
| 16 | puff | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 squashed | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 puff | compound:prt |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 puff | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 night | case |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 puff | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 centimetre | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 centimetre | advmod |
| 23 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 people | amod |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 centimetre | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 centimetre | cop |
| 26 | about | about | ADV | _ | 27 1 | advmod |
| 27 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 centimetre | nummod |
| 28 | centimetre | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 squashed | conj |
| 29 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 centimetre | amod |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 32 waking | advmod |
| 31 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 32 waking | mark |
| 32 | waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 squashed | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 grow | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 astronauts | cc |
| 35 | astronauts | astronaut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 grow | nsubj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 space | case |
| 37 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 astronauts | nmod |
| 38 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 squashed | conj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 centimetres | det |
| 40 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 centimetres | amod |
| 41 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 taller | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 grow | xcomp |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 while | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 while | det |
| 45 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 grow | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 squashed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | present · passive | the soft discs between the bones of the spine | day | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | puff up | present | again; night | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | most people | 1 centimetre | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wake | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | grow | present | astronauts in space | while | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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:071-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up.lesson:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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