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title: One dog year does not equal seven human years: a dog's first year is… — Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying go… · tree and pragmatics
description: One dog year does not equal seven human years: a dog's first year is more like 15 human years, then ageing slows, and small dogs usually live longer than big dogs. Who acts: One dog year, first year, small dogs. A sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» of the 
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# Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 13

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One dog year does not equal seven human years: a dog's first year is more like 15 human years, then ageing slows, and small dogs usually live longer than big dogs.

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**Who acts:** One dog year, first year, small dogs · **What happens:** not equal, be, live

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» 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 (One dog year, first year, small dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:13
# text = One dog year does not equal seven human years: a dog's first year is more like 15 human years, then ageing slows, and small dogs usually live longer than big dogs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	equal	equal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	ageing	ageing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	slows	slow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
32	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
33	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **equal** | present · do-support | One dog year |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | a dog's first year |  |  |  | then; year | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present | small dogs |  |  |  |  | long, usually *property* | 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:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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