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title: Small animals' hearts usually beat faster: a mouse's can beat about… — Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "do… · tree and pragmatics
description: Small animals' hearts usually beat faster: a mouse's can beat about 500 times a minute and an elephant's about 30. Who acts: hearts, mouse. 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 a
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# Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth, sentence 20

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Small animals' hearts usually beat faster: a mouse's can beat about 500 times a minute and an elephant's about 30.

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**Who acts:** hearts, mouse · **What happens:** beat, beat about

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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 (hearts, mouse), 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:20
# text = Small animals' hearts usually beat faster: a mouse's can beat about 500 times a minute and an elephant's about 30.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
15	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **beat** | present | Small animals's hearts |  |  |  |  | fast, usually *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **beat about** | can | a mouse |  |  |  | time |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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:20`.

**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, 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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