Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 13
Even sugar-free fizzy drinks are acidic and can soften enamel; water and milk are the safest drinks for teeth.
Who acts: free fizzy drinks, water · What happens: be, soften · To what, where: enamel, safest drinks
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 (free fizzy drinks, water), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 6 drinks | advmod |
| 2 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 free | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 sugar | punct |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drinks | amod |
| 5 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drinks | amod |
| 6 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 acidic | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 acidic | cop |
| 8 | acidic | acidic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 soften | cc |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 soften | aux |
| 11 | soften | soften | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 acidic | conj |
| 12 | enamel | enamel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 soften | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 drinks | punct |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drinks | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 milk | cc |
| 16 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 water | conj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 drinks | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 drinks | det |
| 19 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 drinks | amod |
| 20 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 acidic | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 teeth | case |
| 22 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 drinks | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 acidic | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | free fizzy drinks | acidic property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | soften | can | free fizzy drinks not said here | enamel | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent enamel=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | water and milk | the safest drinks | for teeth | tree rules |
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:13.
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): 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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