Brushing your teeth, sentence 1
Brushing twice a day, after breakfast and last thing before bed, clears the plaque away; the night brush matters most, because while you sleep there is less spit to wash and protect your teeth.
Who acts: night brush, you, less spit · What happens: brush, clear away, matter, sleep, be, wash · To what, where: plaque, teeth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Brushing your teeth» 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 (night brush, you, less spit), 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 | Brushing | brush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Brushing | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twice | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brushing | punct |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 breakfast | case |
| 7 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brushing | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thing | cc |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thing | amod |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 breakfast | conj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thing | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 clears | punct |
| 14 | clears | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Brushing | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 plaque | det |
| 16 | plaque | plaque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clears | obj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 clears | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 matters | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 brush | det |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brush | compound |
| 21 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 matters | nsubj |
| 22 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Brushing | conj |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 matters | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 is | punct |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 30 is | mark |
| 26 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 sleep | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 sleep | nsubj |
| 28 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 is | advcl |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 30 is | expl |
| 30 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 matters | advcl |
| 31 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 spit | amod |
| 32 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 is | nsubj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 wash | mark |
| 34 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 spit | acl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 protect | cc |
| 36 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 wash | conj |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 38 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 protect | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brushing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush | gerund | after breakfast and last thing before bed | twice property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | clear away | present | the plaque | away property | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent plaque=Source | ||||
| 3 | matter | present | the night brush | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | sleep | present | you | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | be | present | less spit | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wash | to-infinitive | less spit not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | protect | infinitive | less spit not said here | your teeth | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Beneficiary |
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:073-brushing-your-teeth.lesson:1.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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