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title: Some tortoises live over 100 years; Jonathan, on St Helena, is thoug… — Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "do… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some tortoises live over 100 years; Jonathan, on St Helena, is thought to have hatched around 1832, about 194 years before 2026. Who acts: tortoises. 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 with its depende
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# Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth, sentence 15

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Some tortoises live over 100 years; Jonathan, on St Helena, is thought to have hatched around 1832, about 194 years before 2026.

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**Who acts:** tortoises · **What happens:** live, think, hatch · **To what, where:** Jonathan, 1832

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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 (tortoises), 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:15
# text = Some tortoises live over 100 years; Jonathan, on St Helena, is thought to have hatched around 1832, about 194 years before 2026.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	Jonathan	Jonathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
12	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	xcomp	_	_
19	around	around	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1832	1832	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	194	194	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **live** | present | some tortoises |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | Jonathan on St Helena |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **hatch** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  | 1832 | before 2026; year |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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): 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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