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title: When a grown-up tooth starts to push up, it dissolves the root of th… — Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: When a grown-up tooth starts to push up, it dissolves the root of the baby tooth above it, so the baby tooth wobbles and falls out with hardly any root left, and that is why it barely hurts. Who acts: grown tooth, jaw, baby tooth, that. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and
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# Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth, sentence 2

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When a grown-up tooth starts to push up, it dissolves the root of the baby tooth above it, so the baby tooth wobbles and falls out with hardly any root left, and that is why it barely hurts.

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**Who acts:** grown tooth, jaw, baby tooth, that · **What happens:** grow up, start, push up, dissolve, wobble, fall out · **To what, where:** root

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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 (grown tooth, jaw, baby tooth, that), 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:2
# text = When a grown-up tooth starts to push up, it dissolves the root of the baby tooth above it, so the baby tooth wobbles and falls out with hardly any root left, and that is why it barely hurts.
# 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, R5-strong ×2
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=3:compound
6	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	above	above	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	wobbles	wobble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:nsubj
35	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	conj	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	barely	barely	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	ccomp	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | present | a grown tooth |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **push up** | to-infinitive | a grown tooth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dissolve** | present | jaw | the root of the baby tooth above root |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient |
| 5 | **wobble** | present | the baby tooth |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fall out** | present | the baby tooth *not said here* | any root |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **leave** | participle |  | any root *not said here* |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **hurt** | present | jaw |  |  |  |  | barely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |

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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, R5-strong ×2. **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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