Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth, sentence 12
If a rodent's front teeth do not meet, they keep growing and can curl right round; wild rodents with bad teeth can starve, and pet rodents need things to gnaw and checks at the vet.
Who acts: front teeth, teeth, wild rodents, pet rodents · What happens: not meet, keep, grow, curl, starve, need · To what, where: things
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 (front teeth, teeth, wild rodents, pet rodents), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 meet | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rodent | det |
| 3 | rodent | rodent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 rodent | case |
| 5 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 teeth | amod |
| 6 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 meet | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 meet | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 meet | advmod |
| 9 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 starve | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 keep | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 keep | nsubj |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 meet | conj |
| 13 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 keep | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 curl | cc |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 curl | aux |
| 16 | curl | curl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 keep | conj |
| 17 | right | right | ADV | _ | 18 round | advmod |
| 18 | round | round | ADV | _ | 16 curl | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 rodents | punct |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rodents | amod |
| 21 | rodents | rodent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 starve | nsubj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 teeth | case |
| 23 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 teeth | amod |
| 24 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rodents | nmod |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 starve | aux |
| 26 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 need | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 need | cc |
| 29 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rodents | compound |
| 30 | rodents | rodent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 need | nsubj |
| 31 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 starve | conj |
| 32 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 need | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 gnaw | mark |
| 34 | gnaw | gnaw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 things | acl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 checks | cc |
| 36 | checks | check | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 things | conj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 vet | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 vet | det |
| 39 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 checks | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 starve | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not meet a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | a rodent's front teeth | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | keep | present | teeth = tooth | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | teeth = tooth not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | curl | can | teeth = tooth not said here | round property | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | starve | can | wild rodents with bad teeth | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | need | present | pet rodents | things and checks | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 7 | gnaw | to-infinitive | pet rodents not said here | things and checks not said here | vn chew-39.2 «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:12.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2. 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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