--- title: A rabbit's front teeth never stop growing, a few millimetres every w… — Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that… · tree and pragmatics description: A rabbit's front teeth never stop growing, a few millimetres every week, and chewing tough grass and hay all day is what wears them down to the right length. Who acts: front teeth. A sentence of the lesson «Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing» of the biology course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/200-rabbits-hay-not-carrots-binkies-and-teeth-that-never-stop-growing/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/200-rabbits-hay-not-carrots-binkies-and-teeth-that-never-stop-growing/) / 2 # Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing, sentence 2 A rabbit's front teeth never stop growing, a few millimetres every week, and chewing tough grass and hay all day is what wears them down to the right length. **Who acts:** front teeth · **What happens:** not stop, grow, chew, be, wear down · **To what, where:** few millimetres, tough grass, grass This is a sentence of the lesson «Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing» 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:200-rabbits-hay-not-carrots-binkies-and-teeth-that-never-stop-growing.lesson:2 # text = A rabbit's front teeth never stop growing, a few millimetres every week, and chewing tough grass and hay all day is what wears them down to the right length. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 200-rabbits-hay-not-carrots-binkies-and-teeth-that-never-stop-growing.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 millimetres millimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:unmarked _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 chewing chew VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 18 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 26 nsubj _ _ 26 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 down down ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **stop** | present | a rabbit's front teeth | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **grow** | gerund | a rabbit's front teeth *not said here* | a few millimetres every week | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location millimetre=Theme | | 3 | **chew** | gerund | | tough grass and hay | | | day | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **wear down** | present | | grass | | | | to the right length | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | 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:200-rabbits-hay-not-carrots-binkies-and-teeth-that-never-stop-growing.lesson:2`. **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. **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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