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title: The Virginia opossum has fifty teeth, more than any other North Amer… — Raccoons, opossums and skunks · tree and pragmatics
description: The Virginia opossum has fifty teeth, more than any other North American land mammal, and eats almost anything. Who acts: Virginia opossum. A sentence of the lesson «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 12

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The Virginia opossum has fifty teeth, more than any other North American land mammal, and eats almost anything.

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**Who acts:** Virginia opossum · **What happens:** have, eat · **To what, where:** fifty teeth, anything

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» 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 (Virginia opossum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.lesson:12
# text = The Virginia opossum has fifty teeth, more than any other North American land mammal, and eats almost anything.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Virginia	Virginia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	opossum	opossum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	mammal	mammal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Virginia opossum | fifty teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present | the Virginia opossum *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |

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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.

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**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:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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