Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 14

Cheese and sugar-free gum after a meal make you produce more saliva, which washes teeth and helps bring the mouth's acid back to normal.

Who acts: Cheese, you, more saliva · What happens: make, produce, wash, help, bring · To what, where: you, more saliva, teeth, acid

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 (Cheese, you, more saliva), 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	Cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gum	cc
3	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gum	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 sugar	punct
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gum	amod
6	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cheese	conj
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 meal	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 meal	det
9	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gum	nmod
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 make	xcomp
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 saliva	amod
14	saliva	saliva	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 produce	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 washes	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 washes	nsubj
17	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 saliva	acl:relcl
18	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 washes	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 helps	cc
20	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 washes	conj
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 helps	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mouth	det
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 acid	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 mouth	case
25	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bring	obj
26	back	back	ADV	_	21 bring	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 normal	case
28	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 back	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	infinitive	Cheese and sugar free gum after a meal	you	tree rules
2	produce	infinitive	you not said here	more saliva	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saliva=Result
3	wash	present	more saliva	teeth	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
4	help	present	more saliva not said here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	bring	infinitive	more saliva not said here	the mouth's acid	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent acid=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:352-teeth-enamel-sugar-holes-brushing-and-the-dentist.lesson:14.

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 ×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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