Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth, sentence 11

The gap lets a rodent pull its cheeks in behind the front teeth, closing its mouth while gnawing so it does not swallow wood chips.

Who acts: gap, rodent · What happens: let, pull, close, gnaw, not swallow · To what, where: cheeks, front teeth, mouth, wood chips

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 (gap, rodent), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gap	det
2	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lets	nsubj
3	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rodent	det
5	rodent	rodent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pull	nsubj
6	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lets	xcomp
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cheeks	nmod:poss
8	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pull	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 teeth	case
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 teeth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 teeth	det
12	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 teeth	amod
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pull	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 closing	punct
15	closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 pull	advcl
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mouth	nmod:poss
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 closing	obj
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 gnawing	mark
19	gnawing	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 closing	advcl
20	so	so	ADV	_	24 swallow	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 swallow	nsubj
22	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 swallow	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 swallow	advmod
24	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 gnawing	ccomp
25	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 chips	compound
26	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 swallow	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let	present	the gap			tree rules
2	pull	infinitive	a rodent	gap's cheeks	the front teeth	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Theme
3	close	gerund	a rodent not said here	gap's mouth		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
4	gnaw	gerund	a rodent not said here			tree rules
5	not swallow	present · do-support	gap	wood chips		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Patient

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:11.

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. 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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