Brushing your teeth, sentence 17

A girl in Glasgow went to bed after sweets without brushing most nights; at her check-up she had three cavities that needed fillings, one after another.

Who acts: girl, three cavities · What happens: go, brush, have, need · To what, where: bed, three cavities, check up, fillings

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 (girl, three cavities), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Glasgow	case
4	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 bed	case
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 sweets	case
9	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	obl
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 brushing	mark
11	brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 went	advcl
12	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 nights	amod
13	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 brushing	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
15	at	at	ADP	_	19 up	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 up	nmod:poss
17	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 up	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 check	punct
19	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 cavities	nummod
23	cavities	cavity	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 had	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 needed	nsubj
25	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 cavities	acl:relcl
26	fillings	filling	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 needed	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 one	punct
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 cavities	conj
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 another	case
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 one	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	a girl in Glasgow		bed	after sweets	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	brush	gerund	a girl in Glasgow not said here			night	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	girl	three cavities	girl's check up		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cavity=Patient
4	need	past	three cavities	fillings			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot filling=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:17.

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): no change. 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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