Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 11
Dentists check teeth every six months to a year to catch small problems, like holes, before they hurt.
Who acts: Dentists · What happens: check, catch, hurt · To what, where: teeth, small problems
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life 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 (Dentists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dentists | dentist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 check | nsubj |
| 2 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 check | obj |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 months | det |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 months | nummod |
| 6 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 check | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 year | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 check | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 catch | mark |
| 11 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 check | advcl |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 problems | amod |
| 13 | problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 catch | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 holes | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 holes | case |
| 16 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 problems | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hurt | punct |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 hurt | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hurt | nsubj |
| 20 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 catch | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 check | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | present | Dentists | teeth | month; year | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme | |||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | Dentists not said here | small problems | like holes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme | |||
| 3 | hurt | present | Dentists = dentist | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
Licence: CC 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:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:11.
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): R8-pos-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.
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