Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 7
Hamsters usually live about two or three years; dogs about ten to fifteen; cats often a little longer; some tortoises over a hundred years.
Who acts: Hamsters · What happens: live · To what, where: dogs
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 (Hamsters), 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 | Hamsters | hamster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 live | advmod |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 two | advmod |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 three | cc |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 two | conj |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 dogs | punct |
| 10 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | obl |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 ten | advmod |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 dogs | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 fifteen | case |
| 14 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 ten | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 cats | punct |
| 16 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dogs | appos |
| 17 | often | often | ADV | _ | 20 longer | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 little | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 longer | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 cats | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 tortoises | punct |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 tortoises | det |
| 23 | tortoises | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cats | conj |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 years | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hundred | det |
| 26 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 years | nummod |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 | Hamsters | dogs ten to fifteen | year | usually property | 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: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 ×2, 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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