Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth, sentence 12

In Britain and the USA the tooth fairy swaps a lost tooth for a coin; in Spain a mouse called Ratoncito Pérez does the job, and in some countries children throw the tooth onto the roof.

Who acts: tooth fairy, mouse, children · What happens: swap, lose, call, do, throw · To what, where: lost tooth, Britain, mouse, job, Spain, tooth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tooth fairy, mouse, children), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Britain	case
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 swaps	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 USA	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 USA	det
5	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Britain	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fairy	det
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fairy	compound
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swaps	nsubj
9	swaps	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tooth	det
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 tooth	amod
12	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swaps	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 coin	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 coin	det
15	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swaps	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 Spain	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Spain	case
18	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 does	obl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 mouse	det
20	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 does	nsubj
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 mouse	acl
22	Ratoncito	Ratoncito	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 called	xcomp
23	Pérez	Pérez	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Ratoncito	flat
24	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 swaps	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 job	det
26	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 does	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 throw	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 throw	cc
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 countries	case
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 countries	det
31	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 throw	obl
32	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 throw	nsubj
33	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 does	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tooth	det
35	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 throw	obj
36	onto	onto	ADP	_	38 roof	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 roof	det
38	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 throw	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 swaps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swap	present	the tooth fairy	a lost tooth	Britain and the USA	for a coin	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme for coin=Co-Theme
2	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	participle		a mouse not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	present	a mouse	the job	Spain		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
5	throw	present	children	the tooth	some countries	onto the roof	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme in country=Destination

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: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): 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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