--- title: For cats the first year is like about 15, the second brings it to ab… — Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "do… · tree and pragmatics description: For cats the first year is like about 15, the second brings it to about 24, then about 4 a year, so a 10-year-old cat is like about 24 + 8 × 4 = 56. Who acts: first year, second. 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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 (first year, second), 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:13 # text = For cats the first year is like about 15, the second brings it to about 24, then about 4 a year, so a 10-year-old cat is like about 24 + 8 × 4 = 56. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 5 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 nsubj _ _ 13 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nmod 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod:unmarked 24 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 27 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 35 about about ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 37 + + SYM SYM _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nmod _ _ 39 × × SYM SYM _ 13 obj _ _ 40 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 flat _ _ 41 = = SYM SYM _ 42 case _ _ 42 56 56 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13: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 | **is** | present | the first year | | | | | like 15; for cats; about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **bring** | present | the second | cat | | | | to 24 | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme ×=Destination | 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:13`. **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 ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Growing up: ages of people and pets, a…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/11/) - next →: [Growing up: ages of people and pets, a…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/)