The human life cycle and growing up, sentence 0

Every person starts as a single tiny cell that grows inside the mother's womb, a special place in her belly, for about nine months before birth.

Who acts: person, single tiny cell · What happens: start, grow · To what, where: womb

This is a sentence of the lesson «The human life cycle and growing up» of the world 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 (person, single tiny cell), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 starts	nsubj
3	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	8 cell	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cell	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cell	amod
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cell	amod
8	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 starts	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 grows	nsubj
10	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cell	acl:relcl
11	inside	inside	ADP	_	15 womb	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mother	det
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 womb	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 mother	case
15	womb	womb	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grows	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 place	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 place	det
18	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 place	amod
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 womb	appos
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 belly	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 belly	nmod:poss
22	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 place	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 months	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 months	case
25	about	about	ADV	_	26 nine	advmod
26	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 months	nummod
27	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grows	obl
28	before	before	ADP	_	29 birth	case
29	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 months	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 starts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	every person					as a single tiny cell	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	grow	present	a single tiny cell			the mother's womb	month		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside womb=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:world:092-human-life-cycle.lesson:0.

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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