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title: Adult teeth do not grow back; a chipped tooth needs a dentist to rep… — What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: Adult teeth do not grow back; a chipped tooth needs a dentist to repair it. Who acts: Adult teeth, chipped tooth. A sentence of the lesson «What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth, sentence 26

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Adult teeth do not grow back; a chipped tooth needs a dentist to repair it.

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**Who acts:** Adult teeth, chipped tooth · **What happens:** not grow back, chip, need, repair · **To what, where:** dentist

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth» of the everyday 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 (Adult teeth, chipped tooth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.lesson:26
# text = Adult teeth do not grow back; a chipped tooth needs a dentist to repair it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	chipped	chip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	repair	repair	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grow back** | present · do-support | Adult teeth |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **chip** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **need** | present | a chipped tooth | a dentist |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dentist=Theme |
| 4 | **repair** | to-infinitive | a chipped tooth *not said here* | dentist |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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