Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth, sentence 13

People get only two sets of teeth, while sharks and crocodiles keep growing new ones all their lives, and elephants get six sets of big molars one after another.

Who acts: People, sharks, elephants · What happens: get, keep, grow · To what, where: two sets, new ones, six sets

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 (People, sharks, elephants), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 two	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sets	nummod
5	sets	set	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 teeth	case
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sets	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 growing	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 keep	mark
10	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 keep	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 crocodiles	cc
12	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sharks	conj
13	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 get	advcl
14	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 keep	xcomp
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ones	amod
16	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 growing	obj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 lives	det:predet
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 lives	nmod:poss
19	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 growing	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 get	cc
22	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 get	nsubj
23	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 keep	conj
24	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 sets	nummod
25	sets	set	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 get	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 molars	case
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 molars	amod
28	molars	molar	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sets	nmod
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 get	obl:unmarked
30	after	after	ADP	_	31 another	case
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 one	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	present	People	two sets of teeth		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer set=Stimulus
2	keep	present	sharks and crocodiles			tree rules
3	grow	gerund	sharks and crocodiles not said here	new ones	teeth's lives obl:unmarked	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
4	get	present	elephants	six sets of big molars	one after another obl:unmarked	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer set=Stimulus

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: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): R7-rel-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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