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title: Small animals such as mice use energy fast, have many young quickly… — Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived · tree and pragmatics
description: Small animals such as mice use energy fast, have many young quickly and live only a few years, but the naked mole-rat lives over thirty years. Who acts: Small animals, naked mole rat. A sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» of the biology course of Mova's primar
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# Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived, sentence 13

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Small animals such as mice use energy fast, have many young quickly and live only a few years, but the naked mole-rat lives over thirty years.

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**Who acts:** Small animals, naked mole rat · **What happens:** use, have, live · **To what, where:** energy, many young

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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 (Small animals, naked mole rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.lesson:13
# text = Small animals such as mice use energy fast, have many young quickly and live only a few years, but the naked mole-rat lives over thirty years.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Small animals such mice | energy |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | Small animals such mice *not said here* | many young |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient |
| 3 | **live** | present | Small animals such mice *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | present | the naked mole rat |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.lesson:13`.

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

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