Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 7

Like human hair, a dog's fur loses its colour with age, and dogs count as older from about seven or eight, with big breeds ageing sooner.

Who acts: fur, dogs, big breeds · What happens: lose, count, ageing · To what, where: colour

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 (fur, dogs, big breeds), 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	Like	like	ADP	_	3 hair	case
2	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hair	amod
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loses	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hair	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fur	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dog	case
8	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loses	nsubj
9	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 colour	nmod:poss
11	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loses	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 age	case
13	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loses	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 count	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 count	cc
16	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 count	nsubj
17	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 loses	conj
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 older	case
19	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 count	obl
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 seven	case
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 seven	advmod
22	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 older	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 eight	cc
24	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 seven	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ageing	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 ageing	case
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 breeds	amod
28	breeds	breed	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ageing	nsubj
29	ageing	ageing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 count	advcl
30	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 ageing	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 loses	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	a dog's fur	fur's colour	with age	like human hair	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Eventuality
2	count	present	dogs			as older	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as old=Attribute
3	ageing	gerund	big breeds			soon property	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:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:7.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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