Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 17
About a third of each tooth's surface is between the teeth, where a brush cannot reach without floss.
Who acts: brush · What happens: not reach
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 (brush), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 third | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 third | det |
| 3 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 between | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 surface | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 tooth | det |
| 6 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 surface | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 tooth | case |
| 8 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 third | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 between | cop |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 teeth | det |
| 12 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 between | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 between | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 reach | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 brush | det |
| 16 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reach | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 reach | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 reach | advmod |
| 19 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 teeth | acl:relcl |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 floss | case |
| 21 | floss | floss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reach | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 between | 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 | not reach | can | a brush | without floss | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:17.
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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