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title: Bodies keep time too: a child's heart beats about 80 times a minute,… — Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "do… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bodies keep time too: a child's heart beats about 80 times a minute, a mouse's about 500 and an elephant's about 30. Who acts: Bodies, heart. 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 8

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Bodies keep time too: a child's heart beats about 80 times a minute, a mouse's about 500 and an elephant's about 30.

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**Who acts:** Bodies, heart · **What happens:** keep, beat about · **To what, where:** 500

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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 (Bodies, heart), 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:8
# text = Bodies keep time too: a child's heart beats about 80 times a minute, a mouse's about 500 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **keep** | present | Bodies |  |  |  | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **beat about** | present | a child's heart | 500 |  |  | time |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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