Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 11
A hole made by acid is called a cavity or decay; the dentist cleans it out and fills it, and small holes do not hurt, which is why checkups matter.
Who acts: dentist, small holes, checkups · What happens: make, call, clean out, fill, not hurt, be · To what, where: hole · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dentist, small holes, checkups), 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 | 2 hole | det |
| 2 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hole | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 acid | case |
| 5 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | aux:pass |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cavity | det |
| 9 | cavity | cavity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 decay | cc |
| 11 | decay | decay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cavity | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dentist | det |
| 14 | dentist | dentist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cleans | nsubj |
| 15 | cleans | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cleans | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 cleans | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fills | cc |
| 19 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cleans | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fills | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hurt | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hurt | cc |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 holes | amod |
| 24 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hurt | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 hurt | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 hurt | advmod |
| 27 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cleans | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 matter | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 is | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 hurt | parataxis |
| 31 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 matter | advmod |
| 32 | checkups | checkup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 matter | nsubj |
| 33 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 is | ccomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a hole not said here | by acid | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | present · passive | a hole | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | clean out | present | the dentist | hole | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fill | present | the dentist not said here | hole | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not hurt | present · do-support | small holes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | be | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | matter | present | checkups | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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: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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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