Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds, sentence 16

A one-year-old dog is more like a teenager than a seven-year-old child.

Who acts: old dog · What happens: be

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» 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 (old dog), 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	7 dog	det
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 year	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	obl:unmarked
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 year	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dog	amod
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 teenager	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 teenager	cop
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 teenager	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 teenager	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 teenager	det
12	teenager	teenager	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	than	than	ADP	_	20 child	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 child	det
15	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 year	nummod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 seven	punct
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 old	obl:unmarked
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 year	punct
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 child	amod
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 teenager	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 teenager	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a old dog					like a teenager; than a old child	tree rules

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:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.lesson:16.

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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