Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 6

Plaque is a soft film of bacteria that builds up on teeth every day; the bacteria eat sugar and make acid that eats into enamel.

Who acts: Plaque, soft film, bacteria, acid · What happens: be, build up, eat, make · To what, where: soft film, teeth, sugar, acid, enamel

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 (Plaque, soft film, bacteria, acid), 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	Plaque	plaque	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 film	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 film	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 film	det
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 film	amod
5	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 bacteria	case
7	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 film	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 builds	nsubj
9	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 film	acl:relcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 builds	compound:prt
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 teeth	case
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 builds	obl
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 builds	obl:unmarked
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bacteria	det
17	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eat	nsubj
18	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 film	parataxis
19	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eat	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 make	cc
21	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 eat	conj
22	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 eats	nsubj
24	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 acid	acl:relcl
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 enamel	case
26	enamel	enamel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eats	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 film	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Plaque	a soft film			of bacteria	tree rules
2	build up	present	a soft film		teeth	day		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	eat	present	the bacteria	sugar				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient
4	make	present	the bacteria not said here	acid				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product
5	eat	present	acid		enamel			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:6.

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): R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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