Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 16

A girl in Wales chewed ice and opened bottles with her teeth; one day a front tooth cracked, and she needed several visits to fix it.

Who acts: girl, front tooth · What happens: chew, open, crack, need, fix · To what, where: ice, bottles, several visits

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 (girl, front tooth), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chewed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Wales	case
4	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	chewed	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 opened	conj
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chewed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 opened	cc
8	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 opened	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 teeth	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 teeth	nmod:poss
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 opened	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 cracked	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 day	nummod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cracked	obl:unmarked
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tooth	det
17	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tooth	amod
18	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cracked	nsubj
19	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 opened	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 needed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 needed	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 needed	nsubj
23	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cracked	conj
24	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 visits	amod
25	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 needed	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fix	mark
27	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 needed	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fix	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chewed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	chew	past	a girl in Wales	ice			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Patient
2	open	past		bottles		with girl's teeth	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient with tooth=Instrument
3	crack	past	a front tooth		day		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	need	past	girl	several visits			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot visit=Theme
5	fix	to-infinitive	girl not said here	ice			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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:16.

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, 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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