Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 7

How often you eat sugar matters more than how much, because each sugary snack starts an acid attack that can last up to about an hour.

Who acts: you, sugary snack, acid attack · What happens: eat, matter, start, last up · To what, where: sugar, acid attack

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, sugary snack, acid attack), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 often	advmod
2	often	often	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 matters	csubj
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
6	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 matters	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 much	case
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 matters	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 starts	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 starts	mark
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 snack	det
14	sugary	sugary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 snack	amod
15	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 starts	nsubj
16	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 matters	advcl
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 attack	det
18	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 attack	compound
19	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 starts	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 last	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 last	aux
22	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 attack	acl:relcl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 last	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 hour	case
25	about	about	ADV	_	27 hour	advmod
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hour	det
27	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 last	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 matters	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	you	sugar		often property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient
2	matter	present				than much	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	start	present	each sugary snack	a acid attack			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Eventuality
4	last up	can	a acid attack		hour		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:7.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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