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title: Dogs age fast in their first year or two and slower after that, and… — Pets and farm animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs age fast in their first year or two and slower after that, and big dogs age faster than small ones, so "seven dog years to one" is too simple. Who acts: Dogs, big dogs, seven dog years. A sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Pets and farm animals, sentence 8

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Dogs age fast in their first year or two and slower after that, and big dogs age faster than small ones, so "seven dog years to one" is too simple.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, big dogs, seven dog years · **What happens:** age, be · **To what, where:** faster small ones

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» of the myths 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 (Dogs, big dogs, seven dog years), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:8
# text = Dogs age fast in their first year or two and slower after that, and big dogs age faster than small ones, so "seven dog years to one" is too simple.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 007-pets-and-farm-animals.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 ×2
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	age	age	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	slower	slow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	age	age	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
26	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	too	too	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **age** | present | Dogs |  |  |  | year | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **age** | present | big dogs | faster small ones |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | seven dog years to one |  |  |  |  | simple *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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 ×2. **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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