--- title: Picture Charlie's great-grandmother at her 100th birthday, a card fr… — Getting old: how long people and animals live · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Charlie's great-grandmother at her 100th birthday, a card from the King on the mantelpiece: once she was nine, skipping in a garden with her friends, and that child is still part of her. Who acts: you, skin, child. 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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 (you, skin, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson:1 # text = Picture Charlie's great-grandmother at her 100th birthday, a card from the King on the mantelpiece: once she was nine, skipping in a garden with her friends, and that child is still part of her. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Charlie Charlie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 100th 100th ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mantelpiece mantelpiece NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 21 once once SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 skipping skip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 still still ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Charlie's great grandmother | | Charlie's 100th birthday | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | skin | nine and part | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **skip** | gerund | skin *not said here* | | | a garden with skin's friends | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | | 4 | **is a** | present | that child | part | | | still | of skin | 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:religion-ethics:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson:1`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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