Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing, sentence 8

A rabbit's teeth grow all its life; without enough hay to chew they can grow into sharp spikes that cut the mouth, so vets check rabbits' teeth.

Who acts: teeth, sharp spikes, vets · What happens: grow, chew, cut, check · To what, where: life, sharp spikes, mouth, teeth

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 (teeth, sharp spikes, vets), 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	4 teeth	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 rabbit	case
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 life	det:predet
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 life	nmod:poss
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 grow	punct
10	without	without	ADP	_	12 hay	case
11	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hay	amod
12	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 chew	mark
14	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hay	acl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 grow	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 grow	aux
17	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 chew	ccomp
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 spikes	case
19	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 spikes	amod
20	spikes	spike	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grow	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 cut	nsubj
22	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 spikes	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mouth	det
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cut	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 check	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 check	advmod
27	vets	vet	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 check	nsubj
28	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	parataxis
29	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 teeth	nmod:poss
30	'	's	PART	_	29 rabbits	case
31	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 check	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	present	a rabbit's teeth	carrot's life	without enough hay	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chew	to-infinitive	a rabbit's teeth not said here			tree rules
3	grow	can	teeth = tooth		into sharp spikes result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into spike=Result
4	cut	past	sharp spikes	the mouth		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mouth=Product
5	check	present	vets	rabbits's teeth		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme

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: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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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