Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 11
Some bristlecone pine trees in America are nearly 5,000 years old, while an adult mayfly may live only a day.
Who acts: bristlecone pine trees, adult mayfly · What happens: be, live
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 (bristlecone pine trees, adult mayfly), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 trees | det |
| 2 | bristlecone | bristlecone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trees | amod |
| 3 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trees | compound |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 old | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 America | case |
| 6 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 trees | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 old | cop |
| 8 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 9 5,000 | advmod |
| 9 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 old | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 live | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 live | mark |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mayfly | det |
| 15 | adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mayfly | amod |
| 16 | mayfly | mayfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 live | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 live | aux |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 old | advcl |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 day | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 live | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 old | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed hedge=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some bristlecone pine trees in America | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | may | a adult mayfly | day | 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:religion-ethics:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson:11.
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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