--- title: What makes a rodent is its teeth: two upper and two lower front teet… — Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their… · tree and pragmatics description: What makes a rodent is its teeth: two upper and two lower front teeth that never stop growing, and no long pointed canines at all. Who acts: teeth, lower front teeth. 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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, lower front teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.lesson:1 # text = What makes a rodent is its teeth: two upper and two lower front teeth that never stop growing, and no long pointed canines at all. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 csubj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 rodent rodent NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 appos _ _ 10 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nummod 13 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ _ 14 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 23 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 24 pointed point VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 canines canine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | group's teeth | a rodent | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material rodent=Product | | 2 | **is a** | present | | group's teeth | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **stop** | present | lower front teeth and no pointed canines at all | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **grow** | gerund | lower front teeth and no pointed canines at all *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **point** | participle | | | | | | long *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.lesson:1`. **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, 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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