Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth, sentence 1
Picture a dentist's X-ray of a seven-year-old: the baby teeth sit in the mouth, and underneath them, packed into the jaw like eggs in a box, the grown-up teeth are already waiting.
Who acts: you, baby teeth, grown teeth, dentist · What happens: picture, sit, pack, grow up, wait, ray · To what, where: X ray, mouth, jaw, year old
This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly 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 (you, baby teeth, grown teeth, dentist), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dentist | det |
| 3 | dentist | dentist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ray | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 dentist | case |
| 5 | X | x | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ray | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 X | punct |
| 7 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 old | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 old | det |
| 10 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 year | nummod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 seven | punct |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 old | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 year | punct |
| 14 | old | old | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ray | nmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 teeth | det |
| 17 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 teeth | compound |
| 18 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sit | nsubj |
| 19 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 mouth | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mouth | det |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sit | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 packed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 packed | cc |
| 25 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 packed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 packed | punct |
| 28 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sit | conj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 jaw | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 jaw | det |
| 31 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 packed | obl |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 eggs | case |
| 33 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 jaw | nmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 box | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 box | det |
| 36 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 eggs | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 waiting | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 teeth | det |
| 39 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 teeth | amod |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 up | punct |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 grown | compound:prt |
| 42 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 waiting | nsubj |
| 43 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 waiting | aux |
| 44 | already | already | ADV | _ | 45 waiting | advmod |
| 45 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 packed | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a dentist's X ray of a year old | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ray=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | present | the baby teeth | the mouth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mouth=Location | ||||
| 3 | pack | participle | the baby teeth not said here | the jaw like eggs in a box | underneath teeth = tooth | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme underneath they=Destination | |||
| 4 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | wait | present · progressive | the grown teeth | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | ray | a dentist | a year old | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent of=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:351-teeth-baby-teeth-grown-up-teeth-and-wobbly-teeth.lesson:1.
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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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