Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth, sentence 7

A wobbly baby tooth is loose because the grown-up tooth underneath has dissolved its root, and a new tooth usually comes through the gap within a few months.

Who acts: wobbly baby tooth, grown tooth, new tooth · What happens: be, grow up, dissolve, come · To what, where: root, gap

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 (wobbly baby tooth, grown tooth, new tooth), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tooth	det
2	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tooth	amod
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tooth	compound
4	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loose	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 loose	cop
6	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 dissolved	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tooth	det
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 tooth	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 up	punct
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 grown	compound:prt
12	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dissolved	nsubj
13	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	15 dissolved	advmod
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 dissolved	aux
15	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 loose	advcl
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 root	nmod:poss
17	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dissolved	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 comes	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 comes	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tooth	det
21	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tooth	amod
22	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 comes	nsubj
23	usually	usually	ADV	_	24 comes	advmod
24	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 loose	conj
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 gap	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gap	det
27	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 comes	obl
28	within	within	ADP	_	31 months	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 months	det
30	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 months	amod
31	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 comes	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 loose	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a wobbly baby tooth				loose property	tree rules
2	grow up	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dissolve	present · perfect	the grown tooth	baby's root			underneath property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient
4	come	present	a new tooth		the gap	month	usually property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through gap=Initial_Location

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:7.

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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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