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title: Flat, grinding teeth show that an animal ate plants. — Dinosaurs and life long ago · tree and pragmatics
description: Flat, grinding teeth show that an animal ate plants. Who acts: Flat grinding teeth, animal. A sentence of the lesson «Dinosaurs and life long ago» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Dinosaurs and life long ago, sentence 14

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Flat, grinding teeth show that an animal ate plants.

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**Who acts:** Flat grinding teeth, animal · **What happens:** grind, show, eat · **To what, where:** plants · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dinosaurs and life long ago» of the world 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 (Flat grinding teeth, animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.lesson:14
# text = Flat, grinding teeth show that an animal ate plants.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.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): no change
1	Flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	grinding	grind	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **grind** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **show** | present | Flat grinding teeth |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **eat** | past | a animal | plants |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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:world:078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.lesson:14`.

**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): no change. **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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