--- title: Dogs grow up very fast at first, so a 1-year-old dog is already like… — Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "do… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs grow up very fast at first, so a 1-year-old dog is already like a teenager, and then they age more slowly; big dogs age faster than small ones. Who acts: Dogs, old dog, big dogs. 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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 (Dogs, old dog, big dogs), 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:3 # text = Dogs grow up very fast at first, so a 1-year-old dog is already like a teenager, and then they age more slowly; big dogs age faster than small ones. # 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 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 11 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 18 already already ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 teenager teenager NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 age age VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:parataxis 27 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 28 advmod _ _ 28 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 age age VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 33 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 32 advmod _ _ 34 than than ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow up** | present | Dogs | | | | | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | a old dog | | | | | like a teenager | tree rules | | 3 | **age** | present | Dogs *= dog* | | | | then | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **age** | present | big dogs | | | | | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:3`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Growing up: ages of people and pets, a…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/1/) - next →: [Growing up: ages of people and pets, a…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/)