Brushing your teeth, sentence 4

A boy in Toronto, tired after a long day, still brushes for two minutes at bedtime, because he knows night is when teeth are most at risk.

Who acts: boy, teeth · What happens: brush, know, be · To what, where: bedtime, risk · 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 (boy, teeth), 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	13 brushes	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Toronto	case
4	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boy	amod
7	after	after	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tired	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brushes	punct
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 brushes	advmod
13	brushes	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 minutes	case
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 minutes	nummod
16	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 brushes	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 bedtime	case
18	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brushes	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knows	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 knows	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 knows	nsubj
22	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 brushes	advcl
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knows	obl:unmarked
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 risk	cop
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 risk	advmod
26	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 risk	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 risk	cop
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	30 risk	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 risk	case
30	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knows	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 brushes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	brush	present	a boy in Toronto	bedtime	still; minute	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent at bedtime=Destination
2	know	present	boy		night	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	teeth	risk		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:4.

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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