Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, sentence 7
Brush your tongue gently too, because germs on the tongue cause bad breath.
Who acts: you, germs · What happens: brush, cause · To what, where: tongue, bad breath
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 (you, germs), 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 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 3 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brush | obj |
| 4 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 1 Brush | advmod |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Brush | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 germs | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 cause | mark |
| 8 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cause | nsubj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 tongue | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tongue | det |
| 11 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 germs | nmod |
| 12 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Brush | advcl |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 breath | amod |
| 14 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cause | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brush | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush | imperative | you not said here | your tongue | gently property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | |||
| 2 | cause | present | germs on the tongue | bad breath | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition breath=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:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.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): R5-strong ×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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