The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 8

The front teeth, or incisors, of rabbits and guinea pigs grow all their lives and are worn down by chewing tough grass and hay.

Who acts: front teeth · What happens: grow, wear down, chew · To what, where: lives, tough grass

This is a sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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 (front teeth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teeth	det
2	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 teeth	amod
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grow	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 incisors	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 incisors	cc
6	incisors	incisor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 teeth	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 teeth	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 rabbits	case
9	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 teeth	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pigs	cc
11	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pigs	compound
12	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rabbits	conj
13	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 lives	det:predet
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lives	nmod:poss
16	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grow	obl:unmarked
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 worn	cc
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 worn	aux:pass
19	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 grow	conj
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 worn	compound:prt
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	22 chewing	mark
22	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 worn	advcl
23	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grass	amod
24	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 chewing	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hay	cc
26	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grass	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grow	present	the front teeth of rabbits and guinea pigs or incisors	pigs's lives	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wear down	present · passive	the front teeth of rabbits and guinea pigs or incisors not said here		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»
3	chew	gerund	the front teeth of rabbits and guinea pigs or incisors not said here	tough grass and hay	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

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:096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.lesson:8.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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