--- title: Lions have huge canines for gripping prey, while cows have no top fr… — Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth · tree and pragmatics description: Lions have huge canines for gripping prey, while cows have no top front teeth at all, only a hard pad to press grass against. Who acts: Lions, cows. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/351-teeth-baby-teeth-grown-up-teeth-and-wobbly-teeth/11/) [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/) / [Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/351-teeth-baby-teeth-grown-up-teeth-and-wobbly-teeth/) / 11 # Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth, sentence 11 Lions have huge canines for gripping prey, while cows have no top front teeth at all, only a hard pad to press grass against. **Who acts:** Lions, cows · **What happens:** have, grip, press · **To what, where:** huge canines, prey, top front teeth, all, grass 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 (Lions, cows), 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:11 # text = Lions have huge canines for gripping prey, while cows have no top front teeth at all, only a hard pad to press grass against. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 canines canine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 for for SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 gripping grip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 7 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 while while SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 13 top top 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 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 pad pad NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 press press VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl _ _ 25 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 against against ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Lions | huge canines | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canine=Patient | | 2 | **grip** | gerund | Lions *not said here* | prey | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Experiencer | | 3 | **have** | present | cows | no top front teeth | | all | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 4 | **press** | to-infinitive | Lions *not said here* | grass | | | | against *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme | 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:351-teeth-baby-teeth-grown-up-teeth-and-wobbly-teeth.lesson:11`. **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): 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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