Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth, sentence 8
The orange colour of many rodents' front teeth comes from iron in the enamel, which makes it harder.
Who acts: orange colour, iron · What happens: come, make · To what, where: iron
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 (orange colour, iron), 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 | 3 colour | det |
| 2 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 colour | amod |
| 3 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 teeth | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rodents | amod |
| 6 | rodents | rodent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 rodents | case |
| 8 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 teeth | amod |
| 9 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 colour | nmod |
| 10 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 iron | case |
| 12 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 comes | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 enamel | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 enamel | det |
| 15 | enamel | enamel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 iron | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 makes | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 makes | nsubj |
| 18 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 iron | acl:relcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 harder | obj |
| 20 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 makes | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the orange colour of many rodents's front teeth | iron in the enamel | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from iron=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | make | present | iron in the enamel | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:8.
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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