--- title: A hamster is old at 2; a mayfly lives only about a day as a flying a… — Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "do… · tree and pragmatics description: A hamster is old at 2; a mayfly lives only about a day as a flying adult, after a year or more as a nymph underwater; a cat often lives 12 to 18 years; and a tortoise can outlive its owner's whole family: Jonathan, on the island of St Helena, is thought to have hatched around 1832. 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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 (hamster, mayfly, cat, tortoise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years.lesson:1 # text = A hamster is old at 2; a mayfly lives only about a day as a flying adult, after a year or more as a nymph underwater; a cat often lives 12 to 18 years; and a tortoise can outlive its owner's whole family: Jonathan, on the island of St Helena, is thought to have hatched around 1832. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 128-growing-up-ages-dog-years.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×6, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 mayfly mayfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 11 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 amod _ _ 18 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 after after ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 conj _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det 27 nymph nymph NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:compound 28 underwater underwater NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 often often ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 34 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:case 36 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nmod 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 tortoise tortoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 outlive outlive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 44 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod:poss _ _ 46 's 's PART POS _ 45 case _ _ 47 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 49 : : PUNCT : _ 50 punct _ _ 50 Jonathan Jonathan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=48:appos 51 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 52 on on ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nmod _ _ 57 Helena Helena PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 flat _ _ 58 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 59 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 60 aux:pass _ _ 60 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 advcl _ _ 61 to to PART TO _ 63 mark _ _ 62 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 63 aux _ _ 63 hatched hatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 60 xcomp _ _ 64 around around ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 1832 1832 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 63 obl _ _ 66 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a hamster | | | 2 | | old *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | a mayfly | | | | day; year | as a flying adult | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fly** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **live** | present | a cat | 12 | | | year | often *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **outlive** | can | a tortoise | tortoise's owner's whole family | | the island of St | | | tree rules | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive | | Jonathan | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | | 7 | **hatch** | to-infinitive · perfect | | | | 1832 | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | 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:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×6, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Growing up: ages of people and pets, a…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/0/) - next →: [Growing up: ages of people and pets, a…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/)