Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 1

Teeth are strong but not made for everything: opening packets, chewing pencils or crunching ice can chip or crack them, and fizzy or sugary drinks every day cause decay.

Who acts: Teeth, fizzy drinks · What happens: be, not make, open, chew, crunch, chip · To what, where: pencils, ice, teeth, decay

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 (Teeth, fizzy drinks), 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 strong	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 strong	cop
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 made	cc
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 made	advmod
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 strong	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 everything	case
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 made	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 packets	punct
10	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 packets	amod
11	packets	packet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 everything	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 chewing	punct
13	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 made	advcl
14	pencils	pencil	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 chewing	obj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 crunching	cc
16	crunching	crunch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 pencils	conj
17	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crunching	obj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 chip	aux
19	chip	chip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 chewing	conj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 crack	cc
21	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 chip	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 crack	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cause	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fizzy	cc
25	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 drinks	amod
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 drinks	cc
27	sugary	sugary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fizzy	conj
28	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 cause	nsubj
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cause	obl:unmarked
31	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 strong	parataxis
32	decay	decay	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cause	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 strong	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Teeth			strong property	tree rules
2	not make	participle	Teeth not said here			for everything	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for everything=Asset
3	open	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	chew	gerund	Teeth not said here	pencils			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Patient
5	crunch	gerund	Teeth not said here	ice			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Patient
6	chip	can	Teeth not said here				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	crack	infinitive	Teeth not said here	teeth = tooth			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
8	cause	present	fizzy drinks	decay	day		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition decay=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:074-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth.lesson:1.

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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