Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing, sentence 2

A rabbit's front teeth never stop growing, a few millimetres every week, and chewing tough grass and hay all day is what wears them down to the right length.

Who acts: front teeth · What happens: not stop, grow, chew, be, wear down · To what, where: few millimetres, tough grass, grass

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing» of the biology 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 (front teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rabbit	det
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teeth	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 rabbit	case
4	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 teeth	amod
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stop	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 stop	advmod
7	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 growing	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 millimetres	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 millimetres	amod
12	millimetres	millimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 growing	obj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 week	det
14	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 millimetres	nmod:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chewing	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 chewing	cc
17	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 what	advcl
18	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grass	amod
19	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chewing	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hay	cc
21	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grass	conj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chewing	obl:unmarked
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 what	cop
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 wears	nsubj
26	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stop	parataxis
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wears	obj
28	down	down	ADP	_	26 wears	compound:prt
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 length	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 length	det
31	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 length	amod
32	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wears	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stop	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	present	a rabbit's front teeth				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	a rabbit's front teeth not said here	a few millimetres every week			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location millimetre=Theme
3	chew	gerund		tough grass and hay	day		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
4	is a	present					tree rules
5	wear down	present		grass		to the right length	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

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, 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:biology:200-rabbits-hay-not-carrots-binkies-and-teeth-that-never-stop-growing.lesson:2.

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. 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.

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