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title: Children have 20 baby teeth; the grown-up tooth underneath pushes up… — Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Children have 20 baby teeth; the grown-up tooth underneath pushes up while the root of the baby tooth dissolves, and adults usually end up with 32 teeth counting four wisdom teeth, which may come late or never; a lost adult tooth never grows back. Who acts: Children, grown tooth, root, adults. A sen
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# Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up, sentence 4

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Children have 20 baby teeth; the grown-up tooth underneath pushes up while the root of the baby tooth dissolves, and adults usually end up with 32 teeth counting four wisdom teeth, which may come late or never; a lost adult tooth never grows back.

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**Who acts:** Children, grown tooth, root, adults, 32 teeth, four wisdom teeth · **What happens:** have, grow up, push up, dissolve, end up, count · **To what, where:** 20 baby teeth, four wisdom teeth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up» 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, grown tooth, root, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:071-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up.lesson:4
# text = Children have 20 baby teeth; the grown-up tooth underneath pushes up while the root of the baby tooth dissolves, and adults usually end up with 32 teeth counting four wisdom teeth, which may come late or never; a lost adult tooth never grows back.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 071-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up.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, R7-rel-agree ×3
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	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=8:compound
11	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
34	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
38	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	40	conj	_	_
43	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	amod	_	_
46	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
47	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
48	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
50	back	back	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	.	.	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 baby teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 2 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **push up** | present | the grown tooth |  |  |  |  | underneath *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dissolve** | present | the root of the baby tooth |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **end up** | present | adults |  |  |  |  | with 32 teeth; usually *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **count** | gerund | 32 teeth *not said here* | four wisdom teeth |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme |
| 7 | **come** | may | four wisdom teeth |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **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): R4-particle ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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