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title: Rabbit teeth keep growing all their lives and are worn down by chewi… — Dogs and rabbits in your care · tree and pragmatics
description: Rabbit teeth keep growing all their lives and are worn down by chewing hay. Who acts: Rabbit teeth. A sentence of the lesson «Dogs and rabbits in your care» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Dogs and rabbits in your care, sentence 20

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Rabbit teeth keep growing all their lives and are worn down by chewing hay.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit teeth · **What happens:** keep, grow, wear down, chew · **To what, where:** lives, hay

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs and rabbits in your care» 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 (Rabbit teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.lesson:20
# text = Rabbit teeth keep growing all their lives and are worn down by chewing hay.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **keep** | present | Rabbit teeth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | Rabbit teeth *not said here* | teeth's lives |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location life=Theme |
| 3 | **wear down** | present · passive | Rabbit teeth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative» |
| 4 | **chew** | gerund | Rabbit teeth *not said here* | hay |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=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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**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:everyday:062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.lesson:20`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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