The vet, sentence 9

Horses' teeth keep growing and wearing down, and sharp edges can make eating painful, so vets or horse dentists file them smooth with special tools.

Who acts: teeth, sharp edges, vets · What happens: keep, grow, wear down, make, eat, file · To what, where: edges

This is a sentence of the lesson «The vet» 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 edges, 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	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 teeth	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Horses	case
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 file	parataxis
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wearing	cc
7	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 growing	conj
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 wearing	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 make	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 make	cc
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 edges	amod
12	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 make	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 make	aux
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 keep	conj
15	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 make	obj
16	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 make	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 file	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	23 file	advmod
19	vets	vet	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 file	nsubj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 dentists	cc
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dentists	compound
22	dentists	dentist	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 vets	conj
23	file	file	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 file	obj
25	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 file	xcomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 tools	case
27	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tools	amod
28	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 file	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Horses's teeth			tree rules
2	grow	gerund	Horses's teeth not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wear down	gerund	Horses's teeth not said here			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
4	make	can	sharp edges		painful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	eat	gerund				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	file	infinitive	vets or horse dentists	edges = edge	with special tools; smooth property	vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with tool=Instrument

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:227-the-vet.lesson:9.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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