--- title: Hamsters usually live about two or three years; dogs about ten to fi… — Getting old: how long people and animals live · tree and pragmatics description: Hamsters usually live about two or three years; dogs about ten to fifteen; cats often a little longer; some tortoises over a hundred years. Who acts: Hamsters. 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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 (Hamsters), 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:7 # text = Hamsters usually live about two or three years; dogs about ten to fifteen; cats often a little longer; some tortoises over a hundred years. # 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 ×1 1 Hamsters hamster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 usually usually ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 conj _ _ 8 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 12 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ _ 17 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 tortoises tortoise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 24 over over ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 26 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 28 . . 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 | **live** | present | Hamsters | dogs ten to fifteen | | | year | usually *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:7`. **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 ×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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