Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 0
A toothbrush cleans the fronts, backs and tops of the teeth, but it cannot reach the narrow gaps between them, so once a day we clean there with floss or a small brush made for the gaps.
Who acts: toothbrush, we · What happens: clean, not reach, make · To what, where: fronts, narrow gaps, small brush
This is a sentence of the lesson «Flossing and caring for 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 (toothbrush, we), 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 toothbrush | det |
| 2 | toothbrush | toothbrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cleans | nsubj |
| 3 | cleans | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fronts | det |
| 5 | fronts | front | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cleans | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 backs | punct |
| 7 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fronts | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tops | cc |
| 9 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fronts | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 teeth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 teeth | det |
| 12 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tops | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reach | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 reach | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 reach | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 reach | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 reach | advmod |
| 18 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cleans | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gaps | det |
| 20 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gaps | amod |
| 21 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 reach | obj |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gaps | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 clean | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 clean | advmod |
| 26 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 30 clean | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 day | det |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 clean | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 clean | nsubj |
| 30 | clean | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cleans | parataxis |
| 31 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 clean | advmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 floss | case |
| 33 | floss | floss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 clean | obl |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 brush | cc |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 brush | det |
| 36 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 brush | amod |
| 37 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 floss | conj |
| 38 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 brush | acl |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 gaps | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 gaps | det |
| 41 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 made | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cleans | 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 | clean | present | a toothbrush | the fronts and backs and tops of the teeth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent front=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not reach | can | toothbrush | the narrow gaps | between gaps = gap | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gap=Theme | |||
| 3 | clean | present | we | there | day | with floss or a small brush; once property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with floss=Instrument | ||
| 4 | make | participle | a small brush not said here | for the gaps | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for gap=Asset |
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:074-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth.lesson:0.
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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