--- title: Holly, 140 cm, growing about 5 cm a year, needs 20 ÷ 5 = 4 years to… — Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "do… · tree and pragmatics description: Holly, 140 cm, growing about 5 cm a year, needs 20 ÷ 5 = 4 years to reach 160 cm. Who acts: Holly. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Growing up: ages of people and pets, a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/) / 18 # Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth, sentence 18 Holly, 140 cm, growing about 5 cm a year, needs 20 ÷ 5 = 4 years to reach 160 cm. **Who acts:** Holly · **What happens:** grow, need, reach · **To what, where:** 5 cm, 160 cm 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 (Holly), 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:18 # text = Holly, 140 cm, growing about 5 cm a year, needs 20 ÷ 5 = 4 years to reach 160 cm. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Holly Holly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 140 140 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advcl 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 13 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 compound _ _ 15 ÷ ÷ SYM SYM Number=Sing 14 nmod:unmarked _ _ 16 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 17 = = SYM SYM _ 18 case _ _ 18 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl _ _ 22 160 160 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | gerund | Holly *not said here* | 5 cm | | | year | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cm=Theme | | 2 | **need** | present | Holly | | | | year | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | Holly *not said here* | 160 cm | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cm=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:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years.lesson:18`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Growing up: ages of people and pets, a…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/17/) - next →: [Growing up: ages of people and pets, a…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/)