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title: Teeth are not bones: they have no marrow, the enamel has no living c… — Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: Teeth are not bones: they have no marrow, the enamel has no living cells, and a hole in a tooth cannot heal by itself. Who acts: Teeth, enamel, hole. 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 
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# Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth, sentence 14

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Teeth are not bones: they have no marrow, the enamel has no living cells, and a hole in a tooth cannot heal by itself.

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**Who acts:** Teeth, enamel, hole · **What happens:** not be, have, not heal · **To what, where:** bones, marrow, living cells

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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 (Teeth, enamel, hole), 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:14
# text = Teeth are not bones: they have no marrow, the enamel has no living cells, and a hole in a tooth cannot heal by itself.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	marrow	marrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	enamel	enamel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
15	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **not** **is a** | present | Teeth | bones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | teeth *= tooth* | no marrow |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marrow=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | the enamel | no living cells |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **heal** | can | a hole in a tooth |  |  |  |  | by hole | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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): R1-cc-next ×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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