--- title: Rodent front teeth have a hard orange layer and keep growing all the… — Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice · tree and pragmatics description: Rodent front teeth have a hard orange layer and keep growing all their life, so yellow-orange teeth are normal and healthy. Who acts: Rodent front teeth, yellow orange teeth. A sentence of the lesson «Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/8/) [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/) / [Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/) / 8 # Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 8 Rodent front teeth have a hard orange layer and keep growing all their life, so yellow-orange teeth are normal and healthy. **Who acts:** Rodent front teeth, yellow orange teeth · **What happens:** have, keep, grow, be · **To what, where:** hard orange layer, life This is a sentence of the lesson «Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice» 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 (Rodent front teeth, yellow orange teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.lesson:8 # text = Rodent front teeth have a hard orange layer and keep growing all their life, so yellow-orange teeth are normal and healthy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Rodent rodent NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 14 det:predet _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 17 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 25 . . 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 | **have** | present | Rodent front teeth | a hard orange layer | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Patient | | 2 | **keep** | present | Rodent front teeth *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | gerund | Rodent front teeth *not said here* | teeth's life | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location life=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | yellow orange teeth | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | yellow orange teeth *not said here* | | | | | | 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](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:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.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 ×1, 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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