Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth, sentence 1

What makes a rodent is its teeth: two upper and two lower front teeth that never stop growing, and no long pointed canines at all.

Who acts: teeth, lower front teeth · What happens: make, be, not stop, grow, point · To what, where: rodent, teeth

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth» 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, lower 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 teeth	csubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rodent	det
4	rodent	rodent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 teeth	cop
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 teeth	nmod:poss
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 two	punct
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 teeth	appos
10	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 two	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 teeth	cc
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 upper	conj
13	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 teeth	amod
14	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 teeth	amod
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 two	conj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 stop	nsubj
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 stop	advmod
18	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 teeth	acl:relcl
19	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 stop	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 canines	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 canines	cc
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 canines	det
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 pointed	advmod
24	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 canines	amod
25	canines	canine	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 teeth	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 all	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 canines	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 teeth	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	group's teeth	a rodent		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material rodent=Product
2	is a	present		group's teeth		tree rules
3	not stop	present	lower front teeth and no pointed canines at all			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	grow	gerund	lower front teeth and no pointed canines at all not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	point	participle			long property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.lesson:1.

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, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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