Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 14

Among different kinds of animal, bigger ones usually live longer, so big dogs living shorter lives than small dogs is a puzzle scientists still study.

Who acts: bigger ones, big dogs, scientists · What happens: live, be, study · To what, where: different kinds, shorter lives, puzzle

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 (bigger ones, big dogs, scientists), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	3 kinds	case
2	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kinds	amod
3	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 live	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 animal	case
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kinds	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kinds	punct
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 live	nsubj
9	usually	usually	ADV	_	10 live	advmod
10	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 live	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dogs	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 big	advmod
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dogs	amod
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 puzzle	nsubj
16	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 dogs	acl
17	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 lives	amod
18	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 living	obj
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 dogs	case
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dogs	amod
21	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lives	nmod
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 puzzle	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 puzzle	det
24	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 live	parataxis
25	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 study	nsubj
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 study	advmod
27	study	study	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 puzzle	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	bigger ones		different kinds of animal		long, usually property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among kind=Location
2	live	gerund	big dogs not said here	shorter lives			than small dogs	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location
3	is a	present	big dogs	a puzzle				tree rules
4	study	present	scientists	a puzzle not said here		still		vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic

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:14.

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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