Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth, sentence 3

Dogs grow up very fast at first, so a 1-year-old dog is already like a teenager, and then they age more slowly; big dogs age faster than small ones.

Who acts: Dogs, old dog, big dogs · What happens: grow up, be, age

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 (Dogs, old dog, big dogs), 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	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 grow	compound:prt
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 grow	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 fast	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 teenager	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	21 teenager	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dog	det
11	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 year	nummod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 1	punct
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 old	obl:unmarked
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 year	punct
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dog	amod
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 teenager	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 teenager	cop
18	already	already	ADV	_	21 teenager	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 teenager	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 teenager	det
21	teenager	teenager	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 age	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 age	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 age	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 age	nsubj
26	age	age	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 teenager	conj
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 slowly	advmod
28	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	26 age	advmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 age	punct
30	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 dogs	amod
31	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 age	nsubj
32	age	age	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 age	conj
33	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 age	advmod
34	than	than	ADP	_	36 ones	case
35	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ones	amod
36	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 faster	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	present	Dogs		fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	a old dog		like a teenager	tree rules
3	age	present	Dogs = dog	then	slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	age	present	big dogs		fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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:3.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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