--- title: A rabbit's teeth grow all its life; without enough hay to chew they… — Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that… · tree and pragmatics description: A rabbit's teeth grow all its life; without enough hay to chew they can grow into sharp spikes that cut the mouth, so vets check rabbits' teeth. Who acts: teeth, sharp spikes, vets. 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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 (teeth, sharp spikes, vets), 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:8 # text = A rabbit's teeth grow all its life; without enough hay to chew they can grow into sharp spikes that cut the mouth, so vets check rabbits' teeth. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 8 det:predet _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 without without ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 chew chew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 spikes spike NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 vets vet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 check check VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 29 rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 ' 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | a rabbit's teeth | carrot's life | | | | without enough hay | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **chew** | to-infinitive | a rabbit's teeth *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | can | teeth *= tooth* | | | | | into sharp spikes *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into spike=Result | | 4 | **cut** | past | sharp spikes | the mouth | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mouth=Product | | 5 | **check** | present | vets | rabbits's teeth | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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](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:8`. **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): 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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