--- title: Among different kinds of animal, bigger ones usually live longer, so… — Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying go… · tree and pragmatics description: Among different kinds of animal, bigger ones usually live longer, so big dogs living shorter lives than small dogs is a puzzle scientists still study. Who acts: bigger ones, big dogs, scientists. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bigger ones, big dogs, scientists), 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:14 # text = Among different kinds of animal, bigger ones usually live longer, so big dogs living shorter lives than small dogs is a puzzle scientists still study. # 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): no change 1 Among among ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 8 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 usually usually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 16 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 than than ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 puzzle puzzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 25 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 still still ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 study study VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | bigger ones | | | different kinds of animal | | long, usually *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among kind=Location | | 2 | **live** | gerund | big dogs *not said here* | shorter lives | | | | than small dogs | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | big dogs | a puzzle | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **study** | present | scientists | a puzzle *not said here* | | | still | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic | 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:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:14`. **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. 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