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title: Cats work the same way with 4 a year after the second: a 10-year-old… — Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "do… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cats work the same way with 4 a year after the second: a 10-year-old cat is like a person of about 56, middle-aged. Who acts: Cats, old cat. 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 
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# Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth, sentence 5

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Cats work the same way with 4 a year after the second: a 10-year-old cat is like a person of about 56, middle-aged.

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**Who acts:** Cats, old cat · **What happens:** work, be · **To what, where:** same way

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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 (Cats, old cat), 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:5
# text = Cats work the same way with 4 a year after the second: a 10-year-old cat is like a person of about 56, middle-aged.
# 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
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
15	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	56	56	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **work** | present | Cats | the same way |  |  | year | with 4 | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material |
| 2 | **is** | present | a old cat |  |  |  |  | like a person; of 56 | tree rules |

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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:5`.

**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. **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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