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title: A vets' guide for a middle-sized dog: the first year is like about 1… — Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "do… · tree and pragmatics
description: A vets' guide for a middle-sized dog: the first year is like about 15 human years, by the second year about 24, then about 5 more for each year after. Who acts: first year. A sentence of the lesson «Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth» of the world course of Mova's primary 
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# Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth, sentence 11

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A vets' guide for a middle-sized dog: the first year is like about 15 human years, by the second year about 24, then about 5 more for each year after.

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**Who acts:** first year · **What happens:** size, be · **To what, where:** 15 human years

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth» of the world 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 (first year), 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:11
# text = A vets' guide for a middle-sized dog: the first year is like about 15 human years, by the second year about 24, then about 5 more for each year after.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	vets	vet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	sized	size	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	discourse	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:case
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	appos	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	after	after	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **size** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the first year | 15 human years and the second year |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:11`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

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

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