--- title: Teeth look like bones, but they are not: the hard outside has no liv… — Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth · tree and pragmatics description: Teeth look like bones, but they are not: the hard outside has no living cells, so a tooth cannot mend itself the way a broken arm does. Who acts: Teeth, hard outside, tooth, broken arm. 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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 (Teeth, hard outside, tooth, broken arm), 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:3 # text = Teeth look like bones, but they are not: the hard outside has no living cells, so a tooth cannot mend itself the way a broken arm does. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 conj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 outside outside NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 16 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 mend mend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 25 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 30 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **look** | present | Teeth | | | | | like bones | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | present | the hard outside | no living cells | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient | | 3 | **not** **mend** | can | a tooth | outside | | | | the way *obl:unmarked* | tree rules | | 4 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **do** | present | a broken arm | the way *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | 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:3`. **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): 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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