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title: An adult horse has about 36 to 44 teeth that keep growing out slowly… — Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: An adult horse has about 36 to 44 teeth that keep growing out slowly as they wear down, with a gap where the bit of a bridle sits, and vets can guess its age from their shape and wear. Who acts: adult horse, 36 teeth, teeth, bit. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, t
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# Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 14

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An adult horse has about 36 to 44 teeth that keep growing out slowly as they wear down, with a gap where the bit of a bridle sits, and vets can guess its age from their shape and wear.

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**Who acts:** adult horse, 36 teeth, teeth, bit, vets · **What happens:** have, keep, grow out, wear down, sit, guess · **To what, where:** 36 teeth, age, shape

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» 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 (adult horse, 36 teeth, teeth, bit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres.lesson:14
# text = An adult horse has about 36 to 44 teeth that keep growing out slowly as they wear down, with a gap where the bit of a bridle sits, and vets can guess its age from their shape and wear.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	36	36	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obl
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	vets	vet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:parataxis
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	wear	wear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | a adult horse | 36 teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | present | 36 teeth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow out** | gerund | 36 teeth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wear down** | present | teeth *= tooth* |  |  |  |  | with a gap | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sit** | present | the bit of a bridle |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **guess** | can | vets | bit's age |  | vets's shape and wear |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme |

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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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**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 ×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.

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