--- title: Connor is nine and feels about forty. — Growing apart · tree and pragmatics description: Connor is nine and feels about forty. Who acts: Connor. A sentence of the lesson «Growing apart» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/28/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Growing apart](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/) / 28 # Growing apart, sentence 28 Connor is nine and feels about forty. **Who acts:** Connor · **What happens:** be, feel · **To what, where:** nine This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing apart» of the everyday 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 (Connor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:464-growing-apart.lesson:28 # text = Connor is nine and feels about forty. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 464-growing-apart.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Connor Connor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Connor | nine | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | present | Connor *not said here* | | | | | about forty | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about forty=Location | 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:everyday:464-growing-apart.lesson:28`. **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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Growing apart, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/26/) - next →: [Growing apart, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/30/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/)