Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 12

George Washington's false teeth were made from human teeth, animal teeth, ivory and metal, not wood; Elizabeth I's teeth were said to be blackened, probably from sugar.

What happens: make, say, blacken · To what, where: false teeth, human teeth, teeth, sugar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» of the myths 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: 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	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 teeth	nmod:poss
2	Washington	Washington	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 George	flat
3	's	's	PART	_	1 George	case
4	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 teeth	amod
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 teeth	case
9	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 teeth	amod
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 teeth	punct
12	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 teeth	compound
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 teeth	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ivory	punct
15	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 teeth	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 metal	cc
17	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 teeth	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wood	punct
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 wood	advmod
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 teeth	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
22	Elizabeth	Elizabeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 teeth	nmod:poss
23	I	I	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Elizabeth	flat
24	's	's	PART	_	22 Elizabeth	case
25	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 said	nsubj:pass
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	aux:pass
27	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 made	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	30 blackened	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 blackened	aux:pass
30	blackened	blacken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 said	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sugar	punct
32	probably	probably	ADV	_	34 sugar	advmod
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 sugar	case
34	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blackened	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	past · passive	George's false teeth	human teeth and animal teeth and ivory and metal and wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from tooth=Material
2	say speech: assert	past · passive	Elizabeth's teeth		tree rules
3	blacken	to-infinitive · passive		sugar	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»

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:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:12.

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 ×2. 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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