Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth, sentence 18
Holly, 140 cm, growing about 5 cm a year, needs 20 ÷ 5 = 4 years to reach 160 cm.
Who acts: Holly · What happens: grow, need, reach · To what, where: 5 cm, 160 cm
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 (Holly), 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 | Holly | Holly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 needs | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cm | punct |
| 3 | 140 | 140 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 cm | nummod |
| 4 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Holly | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Holly | punct |
| 6 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Holly | acl |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 5 | advmod |
| 8 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 cm | nummod |
| 9 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 growing | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 growing | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 growing | punct |
| 13 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 5 | compound |
| 15 | ÷ | ÷ | SYM | Number=Sing | 14 20 | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 17 | = | = | SYM | _ | 18 4 | case |
| 18 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 needs | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 reach | mark |
| 21 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 years | acl |
| 22 | 160 | 160 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 cm | nummod |
| 23 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 reach | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | gerund | Holly not said here | 5 cm | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cm=Theme | |||
| 2 | need | present | Holly | year | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | Holly not said here | 160 cm | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cm=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:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years.lesson:18.
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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