The vet, sentence 12
A brown crust on a pet's teeth is tartar; food and germs build up on teeth, make the gums sore and can make teeth fall out.
Who acts: brown crust, food, you, teeth · What happens: be, build up, make, fall out · To what, where: tartar, teeth
This is a sentence of the lesson «The vet» 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 (brown crust, food, you, teeth), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crust | det |
| 2 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crust | amod |
| 3 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tartar | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 teeth | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pet | det |
| 6 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 pet | case |
| 8 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crust | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tartar | cop |
| 10 | tartar | tartar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | parataxis |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 food | punct |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 build | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 germs | cc |
| 14 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 food | conj |
| 15 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 make | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 build | compound:prt |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 teeth | case |
| 18 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 build | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gums | det |
| 22 | gums | gum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sore | nsubj |
| 23 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 make | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 make | cc |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 make | aux |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 make | conj |
| 27 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 make | obj |
| 28 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 make | xcomp |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 fall | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tartar | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a brown crust on a pet's teeth | tartar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build up | present | food and germs | teeth | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | imperative | you not said here | sore property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | make | can | you not said here | teeth | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fall out | infinitive | teeth not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:biology:227-the-vet.lesson:12.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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