Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 3

Think of an afternoon of nibbling sweets: every nibble starts a new acid attack that can last up to about an hour, so ten small snacks hurt teeth far more than one pudding after dinner.

Who acts: you, nibble, new acid attack, ten small snacks · What happens: think, start, last up, hurt · To what, where: new acid attack, teeth

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 (you, nibble, new acid attack, ten small snacks), 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	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 afternoon	case
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 afternoon	det
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Think	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sweets	case
6	nibbling	nibbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sweets	compound
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 afternoon	nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 starts	punct
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 nibble	det
10	nibble	nibble	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 starts	nsubj
11	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Think	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 attack	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 attack	amod
14	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 attack	compound
15	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 starts	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 last	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 last	aux
18	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 attack	acl:relcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 last	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 hour	case
21	about	about	ADV	_	23 hour	advmod
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hour	det
23	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 last	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 snacks	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	29 hurt	advmod
26	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 snacks	nummod
27	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 snacks	amod
28	snacks	snack	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hurt	nsubj
29	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Think	parataxis
30	teeth	teeth	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hurt	obj
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 hurt	advmod
33	than	than	ADP	_	35 pudding	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 pudding	nummod
35	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hurt	obl
36	after	after	ADP	_	37 dinner	case
37	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pudding	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here		afternoon		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	start	present	every nibble	a new acid attack			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Eventuality
3	last up	can	a new acid attack		hour		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
4	hurt	past	ten small snacks	teeth		than one pudding after dinner	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer teeth=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:3.

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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