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title: Children have 20 milk teeth, which fall out roughly from age 6 to 12… — Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, te… · tree and pragmatics
description: Children have 20 milk teeth, which fall out roughly from age 6 to 12; adults have 32 teeth if all four wisdom teeth come in, and a lost adult tooth never grows back. Who acts: Children, 20 milk teeth, adults, four wisdom teeth. A sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, 
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# Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth, sentence 12

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Children have 20 milk teeth, which fall out roughly from age 6 to 12; adults have 32 teeth if all four wisdom teeth come in, and a lost adult tooth never grows back.

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**Who acts:** Children, 20 milk teeth, adults, four wisdom teeth, lost adult tooth · **What happens:** have, fall out, come in, lose, not grow back · **To what, where:** 20 milk teeth, age, 32 teeth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, 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 (Children, 20 milk teeth, adults, four wisdom teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:041-counting-animals.lesson:12
# text = Children have 20 milk teeth, which fall out roughly from age 6 to 12; adults have 32 teeth if all four wisdom teeth come in, and a lost adult tooth never grows back.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 041-counting-animals.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
19	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
23	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
32	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
33	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
36	back	back	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Children | 20 milk teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 2 | **fall out** | present | 20 milk teeth |  |  |  | from age to 12 | out *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from age=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **have** | present | adults | 32 teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 4 | **come in** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | all four wisdom teeth |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **grow back** | present | a lost adult tooth |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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): R7-rel-agree ×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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