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title: A child's jaw holds two sets at once: baby teeth in the mouth and gr… — Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: A child's jaw holds two sets at once: baby teeth in the mouth and grown-up teeth forming underneath, years before they come through. Who acts: jaw, grown teeth, teeth. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth, sentence 8

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A child's jaw holds two sets at once: baby teeth in the mouth and grown-up teeth forming underneath, years before they come through.

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**Who acts:** jaw, grown teeth, teeth · **What happens:** hold, grow up, form, come through · **To what, where:** two sets

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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 (jaw, grown teeth, teeth), 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:8
# text = A child's jaw holds two sets at once: baby teeth in the mouth and grown-up teeth forming underneath, years before they come through.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	jaw	jaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	sets	set	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obj
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=17:compound
20	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
21	forming	form	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
28	through	through	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **hold** | present | a child's jaw | two sets |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent set=Theme at once=Location |
| 2 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **form** | gerund | grown teeth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | underneath *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come through** | present | teeth *= tooth* |  |  |  | year | through *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 ×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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