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title: Picture a dentist's X-ray of a seven-year-old: the baby teeth sit in… — Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a dentist's X-ray of a seven-year-old: the baby teeth sit in the mouth, and underneath them, packed into the jaw like eggs in a box, the grown-up teeth are already waiting. Who acts: you, baby teeth, grown teeth, dentist. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly
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# Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth, sentence 1

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Picture a dentist's X-ray of a seven-year-old: the baby teeth sit in the mouth, and underneath them, packed into the jaw like eggs in a box, the grown-up teeth are already waiting.

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**Who acts:** you, baby teeth, grown teeth, dentist · **What happens:** picture, sit, pack, grow up, wait, ray · **To what, where:** X ray, mouth, jaw, year old

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly 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, baby teeth, grown teeth, dentist), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:351-teeth-baby-teeth-grown-up-teeth-and-wobbly-teeth.lesson:1
# text = Picture a dentist's X-ray of a seven-year-old: the baby teeth sit in the mouth, and underneath them, packed into the jaw like eggs in a box, the grown-up teeth are already waiting.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 351-teeth-baby-teeth-grown-up-teeth-and-wobbly-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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	X	x	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	old	old	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	underneath	underneath	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
28	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	jaw	jaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=39:compound
42	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
43	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	already	already	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a dentist's X ray of a year old |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent ray=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | present | the baby teeth |  |  | the mouth |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mouth=Location |
| 3 | **pack** | participle | the baby teeth *not said here* |  |  | the jaw like eggs in a box |  | underneath teeth *= tooth* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme underneath they=Destination |
| 4 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wait** | present · progressive | the grown teeth |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **ray** |  | a dentist | a year old |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent of=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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**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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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