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title: Wiggle your wobbly milk tooth in the bathroom mirror and count: you… — Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, te… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wiggle your wobbly milk tooth in the bathroom mirror and count: you have 20 milk teeth and will get just one more set, while a shark keeps growing new teeth all its life like a conveyor belt. Who acts: you, shark. A sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, tee
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# Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth, sentence 2

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Wiggle your wobbly milk tooth in the bathroom mirror and count: you have 20 milk teeth and will get just one more set, while a shark keeps growing new teeth all its life like a conveyor belt.

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**Who acts:** you, shark · **What happens:** wiggle, count, have, get, keep, grow · **To what, where:** wobbly milk tooth, 20 milk teeth, one more set, new 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 (you, shark), 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:2
# text = Wiggle your wobbly milk tooth in the bathroom mirror and count: you have 20 milk teeth and will get just one more set, while a shark keeps growing new teeth all its life like a conveyor belt.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Wiggle	wiggle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
30	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	_
31	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	conveyor	conveyor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wiggle** | imperative | you *not said here* | your wobbly milk tooth |  |  |  | in the bathroom mirror | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient in mirror=Topic |
| 2 | **count** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | present | you | 20 milk teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 4 | **get** | future | you *not said here* | one more set |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer set=Stimulus |
| 5 | **keep** | present | a shark |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** | gerund | a shark *not said here* | new teeth |  |  |  | like a conveyor belt; shark's life *obl:unmarked* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tooth=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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**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:041-counting-animals.lesson:2`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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