Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived, sentence 13

Small animals such as mice use energy fast, have many young quickly and live only a few years, but the naked mole-rat lives over thirty years.

Who acts: Small animals, naked mole rat · What happens: use, have, live · To what, where: energy, many young

This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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 (Small animals, naked mole rat), 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	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	nsubj
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	5 mice	case
4	as	as	ADP	_	3 such	fixed
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 animals	nmod
6	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	obj
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 use	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 use	conj
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 young	amod
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 have	obj
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	10 have	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 live	cc
15	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 have	conj
16	only	only	ADV	_	19 years	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 years	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 years	amod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 live	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lives	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 lives	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rat	det
23	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rat	amod
24	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rat	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 mole	punct
26	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lives	nsubj
27	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 use	conj
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 years	case
29	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 years	nummod
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lives	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Small animals such mice	energy		fast property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient
2	have	present	Small animals such mice not said here	many young		quickly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient
3	live	present	Small animals such mice not said here		year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live	present	the naked mole rat		year		vn exist-47.1-1 «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:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.lesson:13.

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 ×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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