Life begins: being born and growing up, sentence 9

Different animals grow at different speeds: a giraffe calf stands and walks within about an hour, but a human baby needs about a year.

Who acts: Different animals, giraffe calf, human baby · What happens: grow, stand, walk, need · To what, where: different speeds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Life begins: being born and growing up» of the religion ethics 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 (Different animals, giraffe calf, human baby), 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	Different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 speeds	case
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 speeds	amod
6	speeds	speed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 stands	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 calf	det
9	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 calf	compound
10	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stands	nsubj
11	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 walks	cc
13	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stands	conj
14	within	within	ADP	_	17 hour	case
15	about	about	ADV	_	17 hour	advmod
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hour	det
17	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walks	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 needs	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 needs	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 baby	det
21	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 baby	amod
22	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 needs	nsubj
23	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stands	conj
24	about	about	ADV	_	26 year	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 year	det
26	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 needs	obl:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	grow	present	Different animals	different speeds		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location
2	stand	present	a giraffe calf			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	walk	present	a giraffe calf not said here		hour	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	need	present	a human baby		year	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.lesson:9.

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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