Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 14

Children usually grow about 5 to 6 centimetres a year, faster as babies and again during the teenage years, and stop growing in their late teens or early twenties.

Who acts: Children · What happens: grow, stop · To what, where: 5 centimetres, late teens

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» of the physics 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 (Children), 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	8 centimetres	case
5	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 centimetres	nummod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 6	case
7	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 5	nmod
8	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 faster	punct
12	faster	faster	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 babies	case
14	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 faster	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 again	cc
16	again	again	ADV	_	12 faster	conj
17	during	during	ADP	_	20 years	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 years	det
19	teenage	teenage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 years	amod
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 faster	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stop	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stop	cc
23	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	conj
24	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 stop	xcomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 teens	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 teens	nmod:poss
27	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 teens	amod
28	teens	teen	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 growing	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 twenties	cc
30	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 twenties	amod
31	twenties	twenty	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 teens	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Children	5 centimetres		year	faster, usually property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location centimetre=Theme
2	stop	present	Children not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	grow	gerund	Children not said here		Children's late teens or early twenties			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in teen=Location

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:physics:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.lesson:14.

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 ×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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