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title: Some bristlecone pine trees in America are nearly 5,000 years old, w… — Getting old: how long people and animals live · tree and pragmatics
description: Some bristlecone pine trees in America are nearly 5,000 years old, while an adult mayfly may live only a day. Who acts: bristlecone pine trees, adult mayfly. A sentence of the lesson «Getting old: how long people and animals live» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 11

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Some bristlecone pine trees in America are nearly 5,000 years old, while an adult mayfly may live only a day.

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**Who acts:** bristlecone pine trees, adult mayfly · **What happens:** be, live

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting old: how long people and animals live» of the religion ethics 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 (bristlecone pine trees, adult mayfly), 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:11
# text = Some bristlecone pine trees in America are nearly 5,000 years old, while an adult mayfly may live only a day.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
2	bristlecone	bristlecone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	5,000	5000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mayfly	mayfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed hedge=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | some bristlecone pine trees in America |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | may | a adult mayfly |  |  |  | day |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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