Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, sentence 8
Food stuck between teeth is removed with floss, never with a fork, pin or other sharp object, which can cut gums and chip teeth.
Who acts: other sharp object · What happens: stick, remove, cut · To what, where: Food, teeth, gums
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 (other sharp object), 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 | Food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Food | acl |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 4 teeth | case |
| 4 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stuck | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 removed | aux:pass |
| 6 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 floss | case |
| 8 | floss | floss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 removed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fork | punct |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 fork | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 fork | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fork | det |
| 13 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 floss | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pin | punct |
| 15 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fork | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 object | cc |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 object | amod |
| 18 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 object | amod |
| 19 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fork | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cut | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 cut | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 cut | aux |
| 23 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 object | acl:relcl |
| 24 | gums | gum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cut | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 teeth | cc |
| 26 | chip | chip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 teeth | compound |
| 27 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gums | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 removed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | participle | Food not said here | teeth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme between tooth=Destination | ||||
| 2 | remove | present · passive | Food | with floss and a fork and pin or other sharp object | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut | can | other sharp object | gums and chip teeth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gum=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:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.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): 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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