Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 8
Rodent front teeth have a hard orange layer and keep growing all their life, so yellow-orange teeth are normal and healthy.
Who acts: Rodent front teeth, yellow orange teeth · What happens: have, keep, grow, be · To what, where: hard orange layer, life
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice» 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 (Rodent front teeth, yellow orange 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 | Rodent | rodent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 teeth | compound |
| 2 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 teeth | amod |
| 3 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 layer | det |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 layer | amod |
| 7 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 layer | amod |
| 8 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 keep | cc |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 11 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 keep | xcomp |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 life | det:predet |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 growing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 yellow | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 normal | advmod |
| 17 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 teeth | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 yellow | punct |
| 19 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 teeth | amod |
| 20 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 normal | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 normal | cop |
| 22 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 have | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 healthy | cc |
| 24 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 normal | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Rodent front teeth | a hard orange layer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | Rodent front teeth not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | Rodent front teeth not said here | teeth's life | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location life=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | yellow orange teeth | normal property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | yellow orange teeth not said here | tree rules |
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:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.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 ×1, 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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