Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 13

One dog year does not equal seven human years: a dog's first year is more like 15 human years, then ageing slows, and small dogs usually live longer than big dogs.

Who acts: One dog year, first year, small dogs · What happens: not equal, be, live

This is a sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» 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 (One dog year, first year, small dogs), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 year	nummod
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 year	compound
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 equal	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 equal	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 equal	advmod
6	equal	equal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
8	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 years	amod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 equal	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 slows	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dog	det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 year	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 dog	case
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 year	amod
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slows	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 slows	cop
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 slows	advmod
18	like	like	ADP	_	21 years	case
19	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
20	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 years	amod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 slows	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 slows	punct
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 slows	advmod
24	ageing	ageing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slows	nsubj
25	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 equal	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 live	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 live	cc
28	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dogs	amod
29	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 live	nsubj
30	usually	usually	ADV	_	31 live	advmod
31	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 equal	advcl
32	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 live	advmod
33	than	than	ADP	_	35 dogs	case
34	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 dogs	amod
35	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 longer	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 equal	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not equal	present · do-support	One dog year	year		tree rules
2	is	present	a dog's first year	then; year	slow property	tree rules
3	live	present	small dogs		long, usually property	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:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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