Teeth and their care, sentence 12
Canines are pointed teeth for tearing food.
Who acts: Canines, pointed teeth · What happens: be, tear · To what, where: pointed teeth, 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 (Canines, pointed 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 | Canines | canine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 teeth | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 teeth | cop |
| 3 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 teeth | amod |
| 4 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 tearing | mark |
| 6 | tearing | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 teeth | acl |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tearing | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 teeth | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Canines | pointed teeth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tear | gerund | pointed teeth not said here | food | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location food=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:world:035-teeth-and-care.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): 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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