Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 10
Some places add a small amount of fluoride to tap water to protect teeth.
Who acts: places · What happens: add, protect, amount · To what, where: small amount, teeth, fluoride
This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist» 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 (places), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 places | det |
| 2 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 add | nsubj |
| 3 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 amount | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 amount | amod |
| 6 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 add | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fluoride | case |
| 8 | fluoride | fluoride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 amount | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 water | compound |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fluoride | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 protect | mark |
| 13 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 add | advcl |
| 14 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 protect | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 add | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present | some places | a small amount of fluoride to tap water | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Patient | ||||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | some places not said here | teeth | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | amount | fluoride to tap water | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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:352-teeth-enamel-sugar-holes-brushing-and-the-dentist.lesson:10.
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.
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