Brushing your teeth, sentence 12
A toothbrush with bent, splayed bristles does not clean well and is changed about every three months.
Who acts: toothbrush · What happens: splay, not clean, change
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 (toothbrush), 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 toothbrush | det |
| 2 | toothbrush | toothbrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clean | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 bent | case |
| 4 | bent | bent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 toothbrush | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bristles | punct |
| 6 | splayed | splay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bristles | amod |
| 7 | bristles | bristle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 toothbrush | nmod |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 clean | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 clean | advmod |
| 10 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 clean | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 changed | cc |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 changed | aux:pass |
| 14 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 clean | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 months | case |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 months | det |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 months | nummod |
| 18 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 changed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 clean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | splay | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | not clean | present · do-support | a toothbrush with bent splayed bristles | well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | change | present · passive | a toothbrush with bent splayed bristles not said here | month | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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:12.
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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