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title: Humans need adults to care for them for many years, much longer than… — The human life cycle and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: Humans need adults to care for them for many years, much longer than most animals. Who acts: Humans, adults. A sentence of the lesson «The human life cycle and growing up» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The human life cycle and growing up, sentence 15

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Humans need adults to care for them for many years, much longer than most animals.

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**Who acts:** Humans, adults · **What happens:** need, care · **To what, where:** adults

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The human life cycle and growing up» 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 (Humans, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:092-human-life-cycle.lesson:15
# text = Humans need adults to care for them for many years, much longer than most animals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 092-human-life-cycle.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **need** | present | Humans | adults and most animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **care** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | adults and most animals *not said here* |  |  |  | year | for Humans *= human* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for they=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:092-human-life-cycle.lesson:15`.

**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, R6-punct-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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