--- title: Look at a squirrel's teeth when it cracks a hazelnut: they are orange. — Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their… · tree and pragmatics description: Look at a squirrel's teeth when it cracks a hazelnut: they are orange. Who acts: you, edge, teeth. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth/4/) [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/) / [Rodents: the biggest group of mammals…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth/) / 4 # Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth, sentence 4 Look at a squirrel's teeth when it cracks a hazelnut: they are orange. **Who acts:** you, edge, teeth · **What happens:** look, crack, be · **To what, where:** hazelnut 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 (you, edge, 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:4 # text = Look at a squirrel's teeth when it cracks a hazelnut: they are orange. # 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 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 squirrel squirrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 cracks crack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 hazelnut hazelnut NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | at a squirrel's teeth | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tooth=Theme | | 2 | **crack** | present | edge | a hazelnut | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hazelnut=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | teeth *= tooth* | | | | | orange *property* | tree rules | 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:4`. **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. 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