Teeth and their care, sentence 0
Teeth cut, tear and grind food so it can be swallowed and digested.
Who acts: Teeth · What happens: cut, tear, grind, swallow, digest · To what, where: food
This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth and their care» of the world 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), 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 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tear | punct |
| 4 | tear | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 grind | cc |
| 6 | grind | grind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | conj |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grind | obj |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 12 swallowed | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 swallowed | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 12 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 grind | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 digested | cc |
| 14 | digested | digest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 swallowed | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present | Teeth | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | tear | present | Teeth not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grind | present | Teeth not said here | food | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 4 | swallow | can · passive | food | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | digest | participle | tree rules |
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:world:035-teeth-and-care.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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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