--- title: A wobbly baby tooth is loose because the grown-up tooth underneath h… — Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth · tree and pragmatics description: A wobbly baby tooth is loose because the grown-up tooth underneath has dissolved its root, and a new tooth usually comes through the gap within a few months. Who acts: wobbly baby tooth, grown tooth, new tooth. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth» of the biol --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth, sentence 7 A wobbly baby tooth is loose because the grown-up tooth underneath has dissolved its root, and a new tooth usually comes through the gap within a few months. **Who acts:** wobbly baby tooth, grown tooth, new tooth · **What happens:** be, grow up, dissolve, come · **To what, where:** root, gap 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 (wobbly baby tooth, grown tooth, new tooth), 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:7 # text = A wobbly baby tooth is loose because the grown-up tooth underneath has dissolved its root, and a new tooth usually comes through the gap within a few months. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 wobbly wobbly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=9:compound 12 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 underneath underneath ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 dissolved dissolve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 usually usually ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 through through ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 within within ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a wobbly baby tooth | | | | | loose *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **dissolve** | present · perfect | the grown tooth | baby's root | | | | underneath *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient | | 4 | **come** | present | a new tooth | | | the gap | month | usually *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through gap=Initial\_Location | 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:7`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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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