Brushing your teeth, sentence 18
Tooth decay (dentists call it caries) is the most common long-lasting disease of children, and it is almost always preventable.
Who acts: dentists, Tooth decay, dentist · What happens: call, last, be · To what, where: decay, common lasting disease · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dentists, Tooth decay, 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 | Tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 decay | compound |
| 2 | decay | decay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 disease | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| 4 | dentists | dentist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 call | nsubj |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 decay | parataxis |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 call | obj |
| 7 | caries | caries | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 call | xcomp |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 disease | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 disease | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 common | advmod |
| 12 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 disease | amod |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lasting | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 long | punct |
| 15 | lasting | last | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 disease | amod |
| 16 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 children | case |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 disease | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 preventable | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 preventable | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 preventable | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 preventable | cop |
| 23 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 24 always | advmod |
| 24 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 25 preventable | advmod |
| 25 | preventable | preventable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 disease | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 disease | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | dentists | decay | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | last | gerund | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | Tooth decay | the common lasting disease | of children | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | dentist | always, preventable property | tree rules |
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:18.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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