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title: Donkeys often live 30 to 40 years and some reach 50, longer than mos… — Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules · tree and pragmatics
description: Donkeys often live 30 to 40 years and some reach 50, longer than most horses. Who acts: Donkeys, some. A sentence of the lesson «Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, sentence 10

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Donkeys often live 30 to 40 years and some reach 50, longer than most horses.

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**Who acts:** Donkeys, some · **What happens:** live, reach · **To what, where:** 50

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules» of the biology 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 (Donkeys, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules.lesson:10
# text = Donkeys often live 30 to 40 years and some reach 50, longer than most horses.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Donkeys	donkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
10	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Donkeys |  |  |  | year | often *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | present | some | 50 |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent 50=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules.lesson:10`.

**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): R8-pos-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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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