The human life cycle and growing up, sentence 3
Puberty, which usually starts somewhere between about 8 and 14, is when the body changes into an adult body; the bones grow quickly and then stop getting longer by the late teens or early twenties.
Who acts: Puberty, body, bones · What happens: start, be, change, grow, stop, get · To what, where: adult body
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 (Puberty, body, bones), 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 | Puberty | puberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 when | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 starts | punct |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 starts | nsubj |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 starts | advmod |
| 5 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Puberty | acl:relcl |
| 6 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 starts | advmod |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 8 | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 8 | advmod |
| 9 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 somewhere | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 14 | cc |
| 11 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 8 | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Puberty | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 when | cop |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 body | det |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 changes | nsubj |
| 17 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 when | advcl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 body | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 body | det |
| 20 | adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 body | amod |
| 21 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 changes | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 grow | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bones | det |
| 24 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 grow | nsubj |
| 25 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 changes | conj |
| 26 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 25 grow | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stop | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 stop | advmod |
| 29 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 grow | conj |
| 30 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 stop | xcomp |
| 31 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 getting | advmod |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 teens | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 teens | det |
| 34 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 teens | amod |
| 35 | teens | teen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 getting | obl |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 twenties | cc |
| 37 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 twenties | amod |
| 38 | twenties | twenty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 teens | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 when | punct |
Pragmatics
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- act
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Puberty | somewhere, usually property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Puberty | when property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | present | the body | into a adult body result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into body=Result | ||||
| 4 | grow | present | the bones | quickly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stop | present | the bones not said here | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | get | gerund | the bones not said here | by the late teens or early twenties; long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: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): 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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