Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 15

A boy in Ohio never flossed; food stuck between two teeth for months, and a hole grew there where the brush could not reach, which the dentist had to fill.

Who acts: boy, hole, brush, dentist · What happens: not floss, stick, grow, not reach, have, fill · To what, where: food, two teeth

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 (boy, hole, brush, dentist), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flossed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 flossed	advmod
6	flossed	floss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 stuck	punct
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuck	nsubj:pass
9	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flossed	parataxis
10	between	between	ADP	_	12 teeth	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 teeth	nummod
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stuck	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 months	case
14	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stuck	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grew	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grew	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hole	det
18	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grew	nsubj
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flossed	conj
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 grew	advmod
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 reach	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 brush	det
23	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reach	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 reach	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 reach	advmod
26	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 grew	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 fill	obj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dentist	det
30	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 reach	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 fill	mark
33	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flossed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not floss	past	a boy in Ohio				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stick	past · passive		food	two teeth	month	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme between tooth=Destination
3	grow	past	a hole		there		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not reach	could	the brush				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	the dentist				tree rules
6	fill	to-infinitive	the dentist not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent which=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:15.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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