Brushing your teeth, sentence 3
Brush gently in small circles with a soft brush for about two minutes, and do the tongue too; a toothbrush is personal and is never shared.
Who acts: you, toothbrush · What happens: brush, do, be, not share · To what, where: small circles, tongue
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 (you, 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 | Brush | brush | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 1 Brush | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 circles | case |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 circles | amod |
| 5 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Brush | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 brush | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 brush | det |
| 8 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brush | amod |
| 9 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brush | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 minutes | case |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 two | advmod |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 minutes | nummod |
| 13 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Brush | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 do | cc |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Brush | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tongue | det |
| 18 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obj |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 do | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 personal | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 toothbrush | det |
| 22 | toothbrush | toothbrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 personal | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 personal | cop |
| 24 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Brush | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 shared | cc |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 shared | aux:pass |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 shared | advmod |
| 28 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 personal | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Brush | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush | imperative | you not said here | small circles | minute | with a soft brush; gently property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in circle=Destination | ||
| 2 | do | infinitive | you not said here | the tongue | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a toothbrush | personal property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not share | present · passive | a toothbrush not said here | 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:3.
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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