Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 2

It comes from bacteria living in a soft sticky film on your teeth, called plaque, which feast on sugar and spit out acid.

Who acts: Acid, bacteria, plaque · What happens: come, live, call, feast, spit out · To what, where: bacteria, soft sticky film, plaque, acid · 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 (Acid, bacteria, plaque), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 bacteria	case
4	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl
5	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 bacteria	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 film	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 film	det
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 film	amod
9	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 film	amod
10	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 living	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 teeth	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 teeth	nmod:poss
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 film	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 plaque	punct
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 plaque	acl
16	plaque	plaque	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 film	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 feast	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Int	19 feast	nsubj
19	feast	feast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 plaque	acl:relcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 sugar	case
21	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 feast	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 spit	cc
23	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 feast	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 spit	compound:prt
25	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spit	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Acid		bacteria		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bacterium=Initial_Location
2	live	gerund	bacteria not said here		a soft sticky film on your teeth and plaque		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=Location
3	call	participle		plaque not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	feast	present	plaque			on sugar	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on sugar=Patient
5	spit out	present	plaque not said here	acid			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: 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:2.

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, R8-pos-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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