Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth, sentence 13

For cats the first year is like about 15, the second brings it to about 24, then about 4 a year, so a 10-year-old cat is like about 24 + 8 × 4 = 56.

Who acts: first year, second · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: cat

This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth» of the world 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 (first year, second), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 cats	case
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 15	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 year	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 year	amod
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 15	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 15	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 15	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 15	advmod
9	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 brings	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 15	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 second	det
12	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 brings	nsubj
13	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brings	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 24	case
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 24	advmod
17	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 brings	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 4	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 4	advmod
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 4	advmod
21	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 24	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 year	det
23	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 4	nmod:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 ×	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	39 ×	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 cat	det
27	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 year	nummod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 10	punct
29	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 old	obl:unmarked
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 year	punct
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cat	amod
32	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ×	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 ×	cop
34	like	like	ADP	_	39 ×	case
35	about	about	ADV	_	36 24	advmod
36	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	39 ×	nummod
37	+	+	SYM	_	38 8	advmod
38	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	36 24	nmod
39	×	×	SYM	_	13 brings	obj
40	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	39 ×	flat
41	=	=	SYM	_	42 56	case
42	56	56	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	40 4	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 15	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	present	the first year					like 15; for cats; about property	tree rules
2	bring	present	the second	cat				to 24	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme ×=Destination

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:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years.lesson:13.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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