Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth, sentence 8
Bodies keep time too: a child's heart beats about 80 times a minute, a mouse's about 500 and an elephant's about 30.
Who acts: Bodies, heart · What happens: keep, beat about · To what, where: 500
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 (Bodies, heart), 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 | Bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keep | obj |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 keep | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 beats | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 child | case |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beats | nsubj |
| 10 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 keep | parataxis |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 80 | advmod |
| 12 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 times | nummod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 beats | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 minute | det |
| 15 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 times | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 500 | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mouse | det |
| 18 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 500 | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 mouse | case |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 500 | advmod |
| 21 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 beats | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 30 | cc |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 elephant | det |
| 24 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 30 | nsubj |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 elephant | case |
| 26 | about | about | ADV | _ | 27 30 | advmod |
| 27 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 500 | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Bodies | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | beat about | present | a child's heart | 500 | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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:8.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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