--- title: As a rule small, fast-living animals such as mice live only a few ye… — Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived · tree and pragmatics description: As a rule small, fast-living animals such as mice live only a few years and big, slow ones live long, but there are surprises, like a little rodent that lives over thirty years and a jellyfish that can turn young again. Who acts: small living animals, big slow ones, surprises, little rodent. A sente --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Record-breakers: the loudest and the l…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/) / 3 # Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived, sentence 3 As a rule small, fast-living animals such as mice live only a few years and big, slow ones live long, but there are surprises, like a little rodent that lives over thirty years and a jellyfish that can turn young again. **Who acts:** small living animals, big slow ones, surprises, little rodent, jellyfish · **What happens:** live, be, turn 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 living animals, big slow ones, surprises, little rodent), 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:3 # text = As a rule small, fast-living animals such as mice live only a few years and big, slow ones live long, but there are surprises, like a little rodent that lives over thirty years and a jellyfish that can turn young again. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 As as ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:acl 9 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 10 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 12 case _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 only only ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 19 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 24 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 28 expl _ _ 28 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis 29 surprises surprise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 rodent rodent NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:appos 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 over over ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:obj 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 43 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 44 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 acl:relcl _ _ 46 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 xcomp _ _ 47 again again ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **live** | present | small living animals such mice | | | | year | as a rule | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **live** | present | big slow ones | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **does** | present | surprises like a little rodent and a jellyfish | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **live** | present | a little rodent | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **turn** | can | a jellyfish | | | | again | young *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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](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:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5, 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/). - ← previous: [Record-breakers: the loudest and the l…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/2/) - next →: [Record-breakers: the loudest and the l…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/)