--- title: In Britain and the USA the tooth fairy swaps a lost tooth for a coin… — Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth · tree and pragmatics description: In Britain and the USA the tooth fairy swaps a lost tooth for a coin; in Spain a mouse called Ratoncito Pérez does the job, and in some countries children throw the tooth onto the roof. Who acts: tooth fairy, mouse, children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tooth fairy, mouse, children), 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:12 # text = In Britain and the USA the tooth fairy swaps a lost tooth for a coin; in Spain a mouse called Ratoncito Pérez does the job, and in some countries children throw the tooth onto the roof. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 swaps swap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 Ratoncito Ratoncito PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 xcomp _ _ 23 Pérez Pérez PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ _ 24 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 32 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 throw throw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 onto onto ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swap** | present | the tooth fairy | a lost tooth | | Britain and the USA | | for a coin | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme for coin=Co-Theme | | 2 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | participle | | a mouse *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **do** | present | a mouse | the job | | Spain | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 5 | **throw** | present | children | the tooth | | some countries | | onto the roof | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme in country=Destination | 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. 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