Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 9
A short life, like a hamster's, can still be a happy one when the animal is well cared for every day.
Who acts: short life · What happens: be, care · To what, where: happy one, animal
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 (short life), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 life | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 life | amod |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 one | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 life | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 hamster | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hamster | det |
| 7 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 life | nmod |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 hamster | case |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hamster | punct |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | aux |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 one | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 one | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 cared | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 animal | det |
| 18 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cared | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 cared | aux:pass |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 cared | advmod |
| 21 | cared | care | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 one | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cared | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | a short life like a hamster | a happy one | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | care | present · passive | the animal | day | well property | tree rules |
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:9.
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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