Brushing your teeth, sentence 9
Teeth are brushed gently in small circles with a soft brush, because hard scrubbing hurts the gums and wears the teeth.
Who acts: hard scrubbing · What happens: brush, hurt, wear · To what, where: Teeth, small circles, gums
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 (hard scrubbing), 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 | Teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brushed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brushed | aux:pass |
| 3 | brushed | brush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 3 brushed | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 circles | case |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 circles | amod |
| 7 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brushed | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 brush | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 brush | det |
| 10 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brush | amod |
| 11 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brushed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 scrubbing | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 hurts | mark |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 scrubbing | amod |
| 15 | scrubbing | scrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hurts | nsubj |
| 16 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brushed | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gums | det |
| 18 | gums | gum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hurts | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wears | cc |
| 20 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hurts | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 teeth | det |
| 22 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wears | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brushed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush | present · passive | Teeth | small circles | with a soft brush; gently property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with brush=Theme | |||
| 2 | hurt | present | hard scrubbing | the gums | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gum=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wear | present | hard scrubbing not said here | the teeth | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tooth=Source |
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:9.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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