Brushing your teeth, sentence 10
Germs on the tongue cause bad breath, so the tongue is brushed gently too.
Who acts: Germs · What happens: cause, brush · To what, where: bad breath, tongue
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 (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 | Germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cause | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 tongue | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tongue | det |
| 4 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Germs | nmod |
| 5 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 breath | amod |
| 7 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cause | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brushed | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 brushed | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tongue | det |
| 11 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brushed | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 brushed | aux:pass |
| 13 | brushed | brush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cause | parataxis |
| 14 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 13 brushed | advmod |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 brushed | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | Germs on the tongue | bad breath | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition breath=Patient | ||||
| 2 | brush | present · passive | the tongue | gently property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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:10.
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, 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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