Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth, sentence 15
Some tortoises live over 100 years; Jonathan, on St Helena, is thought to have hatched around 1832, about 194 years before 2026.
Who acts: tortoises · What happens: live, think, hatch · To what, where: Jonathan, 1832
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 (tortoises), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 tortoises | det |
| 2 | tortoises | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 5 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 8 | Jonathan | Jonathan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Helena | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Helena | case |
| 11 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Helena | flat |
| 12 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Jonathan | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Jonathan | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 thought | aux:pass |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 live | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 hatched | mark |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hatched | aux |
| 18 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 thought | xcomp |
| 19 | around | around | ADP | _ | 20 1832 | case |
| 20 | 1832 | 1832 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 hatched | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 years | punct |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 194 | advmod |
| 23 | 194 | 194 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hatched | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 2026 | case |
| 26 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 hatched | obl |
| 27 | . | . | 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 | some tortoises | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present · passive | Jonathan on St Helena | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hatch | to-infinitive · perfect | 1832 | before 2026; year | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |
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:15.
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): 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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