--- title: A vets' guide for a middle-sized dog says year 1 is like about 15 hu… — Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "do… · tree and pragmatics description: A vets' guide for a middle-sized dog says year 1 is like about 15 human years, year 2 brings it to about 24, then add about 5 for each year after: a 3-year-old dog is like about 28 or 29, not 21. Who acts: guide, year, old dog. 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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 (guide, year, old dog), 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:4 # text = A vets' guide for a middle-sized dog says year 1 is like about 15 human years, year 2 brings it to about 24, then add about 5 for each year after: a 3-year-old dog is like about 28 or 29, not 21. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 vets vet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 ' 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 guide guide NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 sized size VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 11 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 13 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 flat _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 18 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 flat _ _ 23 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 about about ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 30 add add VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 31 about about ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 35 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 after after ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 39 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ _ 41 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ _ 43 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 46 like like INTJ UH _ 48 discourse _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=48:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 47 about about ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 28 28 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 parataxis _ _ 49 or or CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 29 29 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 48 conj _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 53 advmod _ _ 53 21 21 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 48 conj _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **size** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | vets's guide for a sized dog | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | year | | | | like 15 human years | | tree rules | | 4 | **bring** | present | year | guide | | 24 | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to 24=Destination | | 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | year *not said here* | 5 | | | for each year; then | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | present | a old dog | 28 | | | | about *property* | tree rules | 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:4`. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/3/) - next →: [Growing up: ages of people and pets, a…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/)