Brushing your teeth, sentence 16

A boy in Texas hardly brushed for a year; a hole grew in a back tooth, it began to throb at night, and the dentist had to take the tooth out.

Who acts: boy, hole, enamel, dentist · What happens: brush, grow, begin, throb, have, take out · To what, where: back tooth, tooth

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 (boy, hole, enamel, dentist), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brushed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	6 brushed	advmod
6	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 year	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brushed	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 grew	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hole	det
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grew	nsubj
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brushed	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 tooth	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tooth	det
16	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tooth	compound
17	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grew	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brushed	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 throb	mark
22	throb	throb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 night	case
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 throb	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dentist	det
28	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brushed	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 take	mark
31	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tooth	det
33	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obj
34	out	out	ADP	_	31 take	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 brushed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	past	a boy in Texas			year	hardly property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	a hole		a back tooth			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tooth=Location
3	begin	past	enamel					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	throb	to-infinitive	enamel not said here			night		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	the dentist					tree rules
6	take out	to-infinitive	the dentist not said here	the tooth				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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:16.

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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