Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 6
In countries like Britain, many people now live into their 70s, 80s or more; reaching 100 is rare, and the King sends a card to people in the UK who turn 100.
Who acts: many people, reaching, King, people · What happens: live, reach, be, send, turn · To what, where: countries, 100, card, people
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 (many people, reaching, King, people), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 countries | case |
| 2 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 live | obl |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 Britain | case |
| 4 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 countries | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 people | punct |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 live | nsubj |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | _ | 9 live | advmod |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 70s | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 70s | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 70s | 70s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 9 live | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 80s | punct |
| 14 | 80s | 80s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 12 70s | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 more | cc |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 80s | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 rare | punct |
| 18 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 rare | csubj |
| 19 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 reaching | obj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 rare | cop |
| 21 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 live | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sends | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sends | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 King | det |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sends | nsubj |
| 26 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 card | det |
| 28 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sends | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 people | case |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sends | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 UK | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 UK | det |
| 33 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 people | nmod |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 turn | nsubj |
| 35 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 people | acl:relcl |
| 36 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 turn | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | many people | countries like Britain | now | into people's 70s and 80s | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||
| 2 | reach | gerund | 100 | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent 100=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | reaching | rare property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | send | present | the King | a card | people in the UK | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent card=Theme to people=Destination | |||
| 5 | turn | present | people in the UK | 100 | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 100=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:6.
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 ×3, R8-pos-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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