Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 14
Breath smells in the morning because germs grow in the mouth overnight when there is less spit.
Who acts: Breath, germs, less spit · What happens: smell, grow, be · To what, where: mouth
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 (Breath, germs, less spit), 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 | Breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smells | nsubj |
| 2 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 morning | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 morning | det |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smells | obl |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 grow | mark |
| 7 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grow | nsubj |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 smells | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 mouth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mouth | det |
| 11 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grow | obl |
| 12 | overnight | overnight | ADV | _ | 8 grow | advmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 is | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 grow | advcl |
| 16 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 spit | amod |
| 17 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 is | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smells | 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 | smell | present | Breath | morning | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | germs | the mouth | overnight property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mouth=Location | |||
| 3 | be | present | less spit | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:14.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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