Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad, sentence 15
Plaque is a sticky film of bacteria on teeth; they feed on sugar and make acid that slowly dissolves the enamel and makes holes; a dentist's pink disclosing tablet colours the plaque you missed brushing.
Who acts: Plaque, teeth, acid, pink tablet, you · What happens: be, feed, make, dissolve, disclose, colour · To what, where: sticky film, acid, enamel, holes, plaque
This is a sentence of the lesson «Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad» 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, teeth, acid, pink tablet), 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 | sticky | sticky | 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 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 teeth | case |
| 9 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bacteria | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 feed | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 feed | nsubj |
| 12 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 film | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 sugar | case |
| 14 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 make | cc |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 feed | conj |
| 17 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 dissolves | nsubj |
| 19 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 20 dissolves | advmod |
| 20 | dissolves | dissolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 acid | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 enamel | det |
| 22 | enamel | enamel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dissolves | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 makes | cc |
| 24 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 dissolves | conj |
| 25 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 makes | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 colours | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 dentist | det |
| 28 | dentist | dentist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tablet | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 dentist | case |
| 30 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tablet | amod |
| 31 | disclosing | disclose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 tablet | acl |
| 32 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 colours | nsubj |
| 33 | colours | colour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 makes | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 plaque | det |
| 35 | plaque | plaque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 colours | obj |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 missed | nsubj |
| 37 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 plaque | acl:relcl |
| 38 | brushing | brush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 missed | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 film | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Plaque | a sticky film | of bacteria on teeth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feed | present | teeth = tooth | on sugar | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on sugar=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | present | teeth = tooth not said here | acid | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product | ||||
| 4 | dissolve | present | acid | the enamel | slowly property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enamel=Patient | |||
| 5 | make | present | acid not said here | holes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | ||||
| 6 | disclose | gerund | a dentist's pink tablet not said here | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | colour | present | a dentist's pink tablet | the plaque | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | miss | past | you | the plaque not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | brush | gerund | you not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «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:063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.lesson:15.
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 ×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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