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title: Rabbits and hares are not rodents but lagomorphs; they have four upp… — Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rabbits and hares are not rodents but lagomorphs; they have four upper front teeth, a small pair hidden behind the big pair, while rodents have two. Who acts: Rabbits, rodents. A sentence of the lesson «Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth» of the biology course of Mova
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# Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth, sentence 13

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Rabbits and hares are not rodents but lagomorphs; they have four upper front teeth, a small pair hidden behind the big pair, while rodents have two.

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**Who acts:** Rabbits, rodents · **What happens:** not be, have, hide · **To what, where:** rodents, four upper front teeth, small pair, big pair, two

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth» 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 (Rabbits, 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:13
# text = Rabbits and hares are not rodents but lagomorphs; they have four upper front teeth, a small pair hidden behind the big pair, while rodents have two.
# 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): no change
1	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	rodents	rodent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	lagomorphs	lagomorph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	rodents	rodent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **is a** | present | Rabbits and hares | rodents but lagomorphs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | rodents *= rodent* | four upper front teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 3 | **hide** | participle |  | a small pair *not said here* |  | the big pair |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind pair=Location |
| 4 | **have** | present | rodents | two |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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:316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.lesson:13`.

**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): no change. **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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