The human life cycle and growing up, sentence 15
Humans need adults to care for them for many years, much longer than most animals.
Who acts: Humans, adults · What happens: need, care · To what, where: adults
This is a sentence of the lesson «The human life cycle and growing up» 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 (Humans, adults), 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 | Humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 need | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 need | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 care | mark |
| 5 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 need | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 care | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 years | amod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 care | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 longer | punct |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 longer | advmod |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 animals | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 most | case |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 animals | amod |
| 16 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 adults | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Humans | adults and most animals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | care not said to happen | to-infinitive | adults and most animals not said here | year | for Humans = human | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for they=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:092-human-life-cycle.lesson:15.
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, R6-punct-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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