--- title: Big cats can break teeth on bones, and a broken tooth can get infect… — Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal ho… · tree and pragmatics description: Big cats can break teeth on bones, and a broken tooth can get infected and hurt, so zoo vets do fillings and root canals like dentists, and some have fitted big cats with metal crowns. Who acts: Big cats, zoo vets, some. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Big cats, zoo vets, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.lesson:7 # text = Big cats can break teeth on bones, and a broken tooth can get infected and hurt, so zoo vets do fillings and root canals like dentists, and some have fitted big cats with metal crowns. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 infected infect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 vets vet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 23 fillings filling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 canals canal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 dentists dentist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 33 nsubj _ _ 32 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 fitted fit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 34 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 crowns crown NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:nmod 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | can | Big cats | teeth | | bones | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Patient | | 2 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **infect** | can · passive | | a broken tooth | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | | 4 | **hurt** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **do** | present | zoo vets | fillings and root canals like dentists | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent filling=Eventuality | | 6 | **fit** | present · perfect | some | big cats | | | | with metal crowns | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.lesson:7`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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