The human life cycle and growing up, sentence 8
A newborn baby has more bones than an adult, because some bones join together as we grow.
Who acts: newborn baby, bones, we · What happens: have, join, grow · To what, where: more bones
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 (newborn baby, bones, we), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 baby | det |
| 2 | newborn | newborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 baby | amod |
| 3 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 bones | amod |
| 6 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 adult | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 adult | det |
| 9 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bones | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 join | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 join | mark |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 bones | det |
| 13 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 join | nsubj |
| 14 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | advcl |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 join | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 grow | mark |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 grow | nsubj |
| 18 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 join | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a newborn baby | more bones | than a adult | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | |||
| 2 | join | present | some bones | together property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | we | 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:world:092-human-life-cycle.lesson:8.
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): no change. 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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