Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 8
Disclosing tablets colour plaque pink so you can see where you missed, and plaque left for days can harden into tartar, which only a dentist or hygienist can scrape off.
Who acts: Disclosing tablets, you, plaque, dentist · What happens: disclose, colour, see, miss, leave, harden · To what, where: plaque, tartar · 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 (Disclosing tablets, you, plaque, dentist), 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 | Disclosing | disclose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 tablets | compound |
| 2 | tablets | tablet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 colour | nsubj |
| 3 | colour | colour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | plaque | plaque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 colour | obj |
| 5 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 colour | xcomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 see | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 colour | advcl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 missed | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 missed | nsubj |
| 12 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 harden | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 harden | cc |
| 15 | plaque | plaque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 harden | nsubj |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 plaque | acl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 left | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 harden | aux |
| 20 | harden | harden | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 colour | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 tartar | case |
| 22 | tartar | tartar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 harden | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dentist | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 scrape | obj |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 dentist | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 dentist | det |
| 27 | dentist | dentist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 scrape | nsubj |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 hygienist | cc |
| 29 | hygienist | hygienist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dentist | conj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 scrape | aux |
| 31 | scrape | scrape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 tartar | acl:relcl |
| 32 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 scrape | compound:prt |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 colour | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disclose | gerund | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | colour | present | Disclosing tablets | plaque | pink property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see | can | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | miss | past | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | leave | participle | plaque not said here | day | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | harden | can | plaque | tartar | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | scrape off | can | a dentist or hygienist | tartar | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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:8.
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, 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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