Brushing your teeth, sentence 7
At night there is less spit in the mouth to protect the teeth, so the bedtime brush is the most important.
Who acts: bedtime brush · What happens: be, protect · To what, where: less spit, mouth, 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 (bedtime brush), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 night | case |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | _ | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spit | cop |
| 5 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 spit | amod |
| 6 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mouth | det |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spit | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 protect | mark |
| 11 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 mouth | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 teeth | det |
| 13 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 protect | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 important | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 important | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 brush | det |
| 17 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brush | compound |
| 18 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 important | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 important | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 important | det |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 important | advmod |
| 22 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spit | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | less spit | the mouth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | the teeth | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the bedtime brush | important 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:7.
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. 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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