Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 9
Brush twice a day for about two minutes with fluoride toothpaste, then spit but do not rinse, so the fluoride stays on the teeth; fluoride makes enamel stronger against acid.
Who acts: you, fluoride · What happens: brush, spit, not rinse, stay, make · To what, where: teeth, 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 (you, fluoride), 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 | Brush | brush | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Brush | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twice | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 minutes | case |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 two | advmod |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 minutes | nummod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Brush | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 toothpaste | case |
| 10 | fluoride | fluoride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 toothpaste | compound |
| 11 | toothpaste | toothpaste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brush | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spit | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 spit | advmod |
| 14 | spit | spit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Brush | parataxis |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 rinse | cc |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 rinse | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 rinse | advmod |
| 18 | rinse | rinse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 spit | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stays | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 stays | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fluoride | det |
| 22 | fluoride | fluoride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stays | nsubj |
| 23 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Brush | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 teeth | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 teeth | det |
| 26 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 stays | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 makes | punct |
| 28 | fluoride | fluoride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 makes | nsubj |
| 29 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Brush | parataxis |
| 30 | enamel | enamel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 makes | obj |
| 31 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 makes | xcomp |
| 32 | against | against | ADP | _ | 33 acid | case |
| 33 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stronger | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brush | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush | imperative | you not said here | minute | with fluoride toothpaste; twice property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with toothpaste=Instrument | |||
| 2 | spit | infinitive | then | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not rinse | infinitive · do-support | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | stay | present | the fluoride | the teeth | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tooth=Location | ||||
| 5 | make | present | fluoride | enamel | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset enamel=Product |
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:9.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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