Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth, sentence 3

Teeth look like bones, but they are not: the hard outside has no living cells, so a tooth cannot mend itself the way a broken arm does.

Who acts: Teeth, hard outside, tooth, broken arm · What happens: not look, have, not mend, break, do · To what, where: living cells, outside, way

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 (Teeth, hard outside, tooth, broken arm), 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	Teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 bones	case
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hard	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 they	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Teeth	conj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 look	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 look	advmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 outside	det
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 outside	amod
13	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	nsubj
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 look	parataxis
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 cells	det
16	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cells	compound
17	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 has	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mend	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	24 mend	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tooth	det
21	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mend	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 mend	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 mend	advmod
24	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 look	conj
25	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 mend	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 way	det
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mend	obl:unmarked
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 arm	det
29	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 arm	amod
30	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 does	nsubj
31	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 way	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not look	present	Teeth		like bones	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	have	present	the hard outside	no living cells		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient
3	not mend	can	a tooth	outside	the way obl:unmarked	tree rules
4	break	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	do	present	a broken arm	the way not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality

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:3.

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): 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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