Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, sentence 18

A girl in New Zealand hardly brushed her teeth and drank fizzy drinks every day; at nine she needed several fillings and one tooth taken out.

Who acts: girl · What happens: brush, drink, need, take out · To what, where: teeth, fizzy drinks, several fillings, nine, one tooth

This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» of the everyday 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 (girl), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brushed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 Zealand	case
4	New	New	PROPN	_	5 Zealand	flat
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
6	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	7 brushed	advmod
7	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 teeth	nmod:poss
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 brushed	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drank	cc
11	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brushed	conj
12	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 drinks	amod
13	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 drank	obj
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drank	obl:unmarked
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 needed	punct
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 nine	case
18	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 needed	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 needed	nsubj
20	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brushed	parataxis
21	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fillings	amod
22	fillings	filling	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 needed	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tooth	cc
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 tooth	nummod
25	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fillings	conj
26	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 tooth	acl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 taken	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 brushed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	past	a girl in New Zealand	girl's teeth			hardly property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme
2	drink	past	a girl in New Zealand not said here	fizzy drinks		day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient
3	need	past	girl	several fillings and one tooth	nine			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot filling=Theme
4	take out	participle		one tooth not said here				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.lesson:18.

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): 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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