--- title: If a rodent's front teeth do not meet, they keep growing and can cur… — Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their… · tree and pragmatics description: If a rodent's front teeth do not meet, they keep growing and can curl right round; wild rodents with bad teeth can starve, and pet rodents need things to gnaw and checks at the vet. Who acts: front teeth, teeth, wild rodents, pet rodents. 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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 (front teeth, teeth, wild rodents, pet rodents), 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:12 # text = If a rodent's front teeth do not meet, they keep growing and can curl right round; wild rodents with bad teeth can starve, and pet rodents need things to gnaw and checks at the vet. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rodent rodent NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 xcomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 curl curl VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 17 right right ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 round round ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 rodents rodent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 starve starve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 rodents rodent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 32 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 gnaw gnaw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 checks check NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl 40 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **meet** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | a rodent's front teeth | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **keep** | present | teeth *= tooth* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | gerund | teeth *= tooth* *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **curl** | can | teeth *= tooth* *not said here* | | | | | round *property* | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **starve** | can | wild rodents with bad teeth | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **need** | present | pet rodents | things and checks | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | | 7 | **gnaw** | to-infinitive | pet rodents *not said here* | things and checks *not said here* | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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. 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