--- title: Each kind of living thing has its own usual length of life: a hamste… — Getting old: how long people and animals live · tree and pragmatics description: Each kind of living thing has its own usual length of life: a hamster about two or three years, a dog about ten to fifteen, many people seventy, eighty or more, some tortoises over a hundred, and a bristlecone pine tree nearly five thousand. Who acts: kind, many people. 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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 (kind, many people), 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:2 # text = Each kind of living thing has its own usual length of life: a hamster about two or three years, a dog about ten to fifteen, many people seventy, eighty or more, some tortoises over a hundred, and a bristlecone pine tree nearly five thousand. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×5 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 conj _ _ 20 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 25 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nmod _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 seventy seventy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 eighty eighty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:nmod 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 tortoises tortoise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 39 over over ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nmod _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 45 bristlecone bristlecone NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 46 pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 48 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 50 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=50:nummod 50 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 47 appos _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | each kind of living thing | kind's own usual length of life and seventy and some tortoises over a hundred and a bristlecone pine tree | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent length=Patient | | 2 | **seventy** | | many people | | | | | | 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:2`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×5. **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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