--- title: Horses' teeth keep growing and wearing down, and sharp edges can mak… — The vet · tree and pragmatics description: Horses' teeth keep growing and wearing down, and sharp edges can make eating painful, so vets or horse dentists file them smooth with special tools. Who acts: teeth, sharp edges, vets. A sentence of the lesson «The vet» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/9/) [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/) / [The vet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/) / 9 # The vet, sentence 9 Horses' teeth keep growing and wearing down, and sharp edges can make eating painful, so vets or horse dentists file them smooth with special tools. **Who acts:** teeth, sharp edges, vets · **What happens:** keep, grow, wear down, make, eat, file · **To what, where:** edges This is a sentence of the lesson «The vet» 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 (teeth, sharp edges, vets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:227-the-vet.lesson:9 # text = Horses' teeth keep growing and wearing down, and sharp edges can make eating painful, so vets or horse dentists file them smooth with special tools. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 227-the-vet.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 ' 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 5 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 wearing wear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 8 down down ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 15 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 obj _ _ 16 painful painful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 18 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 19 vets vet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 dentists dentist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 23 file file VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 tools tool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | Horses's teeth | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | gerund | Horses's teeth *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **wear down** | gerund | Horses's teeth *not said here* | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | can | sharp edges | | | | | painful *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **file** | infinitive | vets or horse dentists | edges *= edge* | | | | with special tools; smooth *property* | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with tool=Instrument | 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:227-the-vet.lesson:9`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The vet, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/8/) - next →: [The vet, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/)