--- title: Like human hair, a dog's fur loses its colour with age, and dogs cou… — Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying go… · tree and pragmatics description: Like human hair, a dog's fur loses its colour with age, and dogs count as older from about seven or eight, with big breeds ageing sooner. Who acts: fur, dogs, big breeds. A sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye/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/) / [Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye/) / 7 # Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 7 Like human hair, a dog's fur loses its colour with age, and dogs count as older from about seven or eight, with big breeds ageing sooner. **Who acts:** fur, dogs, big breeds · **What happens:** lose, count, ageing · **To what, where:** colour 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 (fur, dogs, big breeds), 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:7 # text = Like human hair, a dog's fur loses its colour with age, and dogs count as older from about seven or eight, with big breeds ageing sooner. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Like like ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 6 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:ccomp 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 obl _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 breeds breed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:compound 29 ageing ageing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | present | a dog's fur | fur's colour | | | with age | like human hair | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Eventuality | | 2 | **count** | present | dogs | | | | | as older | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as old=Attribute | | 3 | **ageing** | gerund | big breeds | | | | | soon *property* | 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: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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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