--- title: A dog usually lives about 10 to 13 years and a cat about 12 to 18, s… — Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first · tree and pragmatics description: A dog usually lives about 10 to 13 years and a cat about 12 to 18, so a pet is a promise for many years. Who acts: dog, pet. A sentence of the lesson «Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first/7/) [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/) / [Choosing a pet: the questions to ask f…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first/) / 7 # Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 7 A dog usually lives about 10 to 13 years and a cat about 12 to 18, so a pet is a promise for many years. **Who acts:** dog, pet · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** promise This is a sentence of the lesson «Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first» 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 (dog, pet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first.lesson:7 # text = A dog usually lives about 10 to 13 years and a cat about 12 to 18, so a pet is a promise for many years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 usually usually ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 13 13 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 appos _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obl 27 . . PUNCT . _ 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** | present | a dog | | | | year | usually *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | a pet | a promise | | | year | | tree rules | 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:325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first.lesson:7`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Choosing a pet: the questions to ask f…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first/6/) - next →: [Choosing a pet: the questions to ask f…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first/)