Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 8
Small animals usually have shorter lives than big ones, though there are exceptions.
Who acts: Small animals, exceptions · What happens: have, be · To what, where: shorter lives
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 (Small animals, exceptions), 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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 animals | amod |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 lives | amod |
| 6 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 ones | case |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ones | amod |
| 9 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lives | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 are | punct |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 are | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 are | expl |
| 13 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | advcl |
| 14 | exceptions | exception | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 are | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Small animals | shorter lives | than big ones; usually property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | |||
| 2 | does | present | exceptions | there | vn exist-47.1 «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:8.
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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