Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 10

Dogs age faster than people: an old dog sleeps more, moves slowly and often gets grey fur round its muzzle.

Who acts: Dogs, old dog · What happens: age, sleep, move, get · To what, where: grey fur

This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting old: how long people and animals live» 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 (Dogs, 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	Dogs	dogs	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 age	nsubj
2	age	age	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 age	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 age	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 more	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dog	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dog	amod
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sleeps	nsubj
10	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 age	conj
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 sleeps	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 moves	punct
13	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sleeps	conj
14	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	13 moves	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gets	cc
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 gets	advmod
17	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sleeps	conj
18	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fur	amod
19	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gets	obj
20	round	round	ADP	_	22 muzzle	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 muzzle	nmod:poss
22	muzzle	muzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gets	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 age	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	age	present	Dogs		than people; fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sleep	present	a old dog			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	move	present	a old dog not said here		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	get	present	a old dog not said here	grey fur	round dog's muzzle; often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fur=Stimulus

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:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson:10.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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