Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth, sentence 13

Rabbits and hares are not rodents but lagomorphs; they have four upper front teeth, a small pair hidden behind the big pair, while rodents have two.

Who acts: Rabbits, rodents · What happens: not be, have, hide · To what, where: rodents, four upper front teeth, small pair, big pair, two

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 (Rabbits, 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	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rodents	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 hares	cc
3	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rabbits	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rodents	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 rodents	advmod
6	rodents	rodent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 lagomorphs	cc
8	lagomorphs	lagomorph	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rodents	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rodents	parataxis
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 teeth	nummod
13	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 teeth	amod
14	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 teeth	amod
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pair	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pair	det
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pair	amod
19	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 teeth	appos
20	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 pair	acl
21	behind	behind	ADP	_	24 pair	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pair	det
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pair	amod
24	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hidden	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 have	mark
27	rodents	rodent	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 have	advcl
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 have	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rodents	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not is a	present	Rabbits and hares	rodents but lagomorphs		tree rules
2	have	present	rodents = rodent	four upper front teeth		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
3	hide	participle		a small pair not said here	the big pair	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind pair=Location
4	have	present	rodents	two		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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:13.

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): no change. 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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