Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 16

Many old pets have tartar, a hard brown crust on the teeth, and sore gums, bad teeth can stop a pet eating, and a grown cat has 30 teeth, of which an old cat may have lost several.

Who acts: Many old pets, bad teeth, grown cat, old cat · What happens: have, stop, grow, lose · To what, where: tartar, pet eating, 30 teeth, several

This is a sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» 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 (Many old pets, bad teeth, grown cat, old cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

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statement

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assert

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narrator

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none

teacher

changed polarity=none

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.

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