Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth, sentence 20
Small animals' hearts usually beat faster: a mouse's can beat about 500 times a minute and an elephant's about 30.
Who acts: hearts, mouse · What happens: beat, beat about
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 (hearts, mouse), 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 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 animals | case |
| 4 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 beat | nsubj |
| 5 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 6 beat | advmod |
| 6 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 beat | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 beat | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mouse | det |
| 10 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beat | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 mouse | case |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 beat | aux |
| 13 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 beat | parataxis |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 500 | advmod |
| 15 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 times | nummod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 beat | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 minute | det |
| 18 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 elephant | cc |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 elephant | det |
| 21 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 minute | conj |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 minute | case |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 30 | advmod |
| 24 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 minute | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | Small animals's hearts | fast, usually property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beat about | can | a mouse | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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:20.
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, 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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