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title: A one-year-old dog is more like a teenager than a seven-year-old chi… — Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds · tree and pragmatics
description: A one-year-old dog is more like a teenager than a seven-year-old child. Who acts: old dog. A sentence of the lesson «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds, sentence 16

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A one-year-old dog is more like a teenager than a seven-year-old child.

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**Who acts:** old dog · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» 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 (old dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.lesson:16
# text = A one-year-old dog is more like a teenager than a seven-year-old child.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	teenager	teenager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
15	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **is** | present | a old dog |  |  |  |  | like a teenager; than a old child | tree rules |

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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:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.lesson:16`.

**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): no change. **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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