--- title: A dog called Bluey in Australia was reported to live over 29 years,… — Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying go… · tree and pragmatics description: A dog called Bluey in Australia was reported to live over 29 years, and a cat called Creme Puff in the USA was reported to live 38 years; these are rare records. Who acts: these. 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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 (these), 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:15 # text = A dog called Bluey in Australia was reported to live over 29 years, and a cat called Creme Puff in the USA was reported to live 38 years; these are rare records. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 Bluey Bluey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 over over ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 29 29 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 Creme Creme PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Puff Puff PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 38 38 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 31 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 records record NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **call** | participle | | a dog *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **report** | past · passive | | a dog | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **call** | participle | | a cat *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **report** | past · passive | | a cat | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **live** | to-infinitive | | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | present | these | rare records | | | | | 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:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:15`. **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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