Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up, sentence 4
Children have 20 baby teeth; the grown-up tooth underneath pushes up while the root of the baby tooth dissolves, and adults usually end up with 32 teeth counting four wisdom teeth, which may come late or never; a lost adult tooth never grows back.
Who acts: Children, grown tooth, root, adults, 32 teeth, four wisdom teeth · What happens: have, grow up, push up, dissolve, end up, count · To what, where: 20 baby teeth, four wisdom teeth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up» 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 (Children, grown tooth, root, adults), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 teeth | nummod |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 teeth | compound |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 pushes | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tooth | det |
| 8 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tooth | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 up | punct |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 grown | compound:prt |
| 11 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pushes | nsubj |
| 12 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 13 pushes | advmod |
| 13 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 pushes | compound:prt |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 dissolves | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 root | det |
| 17 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dissolves | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tooth | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tooth | det |
| 20 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tooth | compound |
| 21 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 root | nmod |
| 22 | dissolves | dissolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pushes | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 end | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 end | cc |
| 25 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 end | nsubj |
| 26 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 27 end | advmod |
| 27 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 end | compound:prt |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 teeth | case |
| 30 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 teeth | nummod |
| 31 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 end | obl |
| 32 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 teeth | acl |
| 33 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 teeth | nummod |
| 34 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 teeth | compound |
| 35 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 counting | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 come | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 come | nsubj |
| 38 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 come | aux |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 teeth | acl:relcl |
| 40 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 come | advmod |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 42 never | cc |
| 42 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 late | conj |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 grows | punct |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 tooth | det |
| 45 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 tooth | amod |
| 46 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 tooth | compound |
| 47 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 grows | nsubj |
| 48 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 49 grows | advmod |
| 49 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 50 | back | back | ADV | _ | 49 grows | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Children | 20 baby teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | push up | present | the grown tooth | underneath property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | dissolve | present | the root of the baby tooth | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | end up | present | adults | with 32 teeth; usually property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | count | gerund | 32 teeth not said here | four wisdom teeth | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme | ||||
| 7 | come | may | four wisdom teeth | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | not grow back | present | a lost adult tooth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:071-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up.lesson:4.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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