Brushing your teeth, sentence 5
Germs and food make plaque, a sticky layer that causes holes in the teeth.
Who acts: Germs, sticky layer · What happens: make, cause · To what, where: plaque, holes, teeth
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 (Germs, sticky layer), 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 | Germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 food | cc |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Germs | conj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | plaque | plaque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 layer | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 layer | det |
| 8 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 layer | amod |
| 9 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plaque | appos |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 causes | nsubj |
| 11 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 layer | acl:relcl |
| 12 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 causes | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 teeth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 teeth | det |
| 15 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 causes | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Germs and food | plaque | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plaque=Product | ||||
| 2 | cause | present | a sticky layer | holes | the teeth | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition hole=Patient |
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:5.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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