Brushing your teeth, sentence 15

Acidic drinks like orange juice soften the tooth enamel for a while, so you brush before breakfast or wait about an hour after it before brushing.

Who acts: Acidic drinks, you · What happens: soften, brush, wait · To what, where: tooth enamel, breakfast

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 (Acidic drinks, you), 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	Acidic	acidic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 drinks	amod
2	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 soften	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 juice	case
4	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 juice	amod
5	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinks	nmod
6	soften	soften	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 enamel	det
8	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 enamel	compound
9	enamel	enamel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soften	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 while	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 while	det
12	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soften	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brush	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 brush	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 brush	nsubj
16	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 soften	conj
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 breakfast	case
18	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brush	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 wait	cc
20	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 brush	conj
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 hour	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hour	det
23	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wait	obl
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wait	obl
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 brushing	mark
27	brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 wait	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 soften	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	soften	present	Acidic drinks like orange juice	the tooth enamel		while	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent enamel=Patient
2	brush	present	you		breakfast		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before breakfast=Destination
3	wait	present	you not said here			after enamel; hour	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	brush	gerund	you not said here				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:15.

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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