Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 16

George Washington's false teeth were made of hippo ivory, metal and human and animal teeth, not wood, which would soften and rot in a wet mouth.

Who acts: wood · What happens: make, soften, rot · To what, where: false teeth, wet mouth

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 (wood), 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	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 teeth	nmod:poss
2	Washington	Washington	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 George	flat
3	's	's	PART	_	1 George	case
4	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 teeth	amod
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 ivory	case
9	hippo	hippo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ivory	compound
10	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 metal	punct
12	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ivory	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 human	cc
14	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 metal	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 teeth	cc
16	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 human	conj
17	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ivory	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wood	punct
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 wood	advmod
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ivory	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 soften	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 soften	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 soften	aux
24	soften	soften	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wood	acl:relcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rot	cc
26	rot	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 soften	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 mouth	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 mouth	det
29	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mouth	amod
30	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rot	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		George's false teeth		of hippo ivory and metal and teeth and wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	soften	would	wood				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	rot	infinitive	wood not said here		a wet mouth		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:16.

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, 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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