Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth, sentence 9
Growing up brings new things you're allowed to do, like learning to drive at 17 in Britain, but being on time stays your job all your life.
Who acts: Growing, new things, you, your · What happens: grow up, bring, allow, do, learn, drive · To what, where: new things, you, 17, job
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 (Growing, new things, you, your), 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 | Growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 brings | csubj |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Growing | compound:prt |
| 3 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brings | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 allowed | aux:pass |
| 8 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 things | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 allowed | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 learning | punct |
| 12 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 13 learning | mark |
| 13 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 do | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 drive | mark |
| 15 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 learning | xcomp |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 17 | case |
| 17 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 drive | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Britain | case |
| 19 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 drive | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stays | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 stays | cc |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 time | cop |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stays | advcl |
| 25 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brings | conj |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 job | nmod:poss |
| 27 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stays | obj |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 life | det:predet |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 life | nmod:poss |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stays | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | bring | present | Growing | new things | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | allow | present · passive | new things not said here | you | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | learn | gerund | you not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | drive | to-infinitive | you not said here | 17 | in Britain | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent at 17=Destination in britain=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | is | gerund | on time | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | stay | present | Growing not said here | your job | your life obl:unmarked | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme job=Location | |||
| 9 | job | your | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:9.
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 ×2. 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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