Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 18
Using teeth as tools, such as opening packets or bottles, is a common way children crack and chip teeth.
Who acts: Using, children · What happens: use, open, be, crack, chip · To what, where: teeth, common way
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 (Using, children), 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 | Using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 way | csubj |
| 2 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Using | obj |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 tools | case |
| 4 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Using | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 packets | punct |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 packets | case |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 such | fixed |
| 8 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 packets | amod |
| 9 | packets | packet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tools | nmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 bottles | cc |
| 11 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 packets | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Using | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 way | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 15 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 crack | nsubj |
| 18 | crack | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 way | acl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 chip | cc |
| 20 | chip | chip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 crack | conj |
| 21 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 crack | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | gerund | teeth | as tools such opening packets or bottles | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tooth=Duration as tool=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | open | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | Using | a common way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | crack | present | children | teeth | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tooth=Theme | ||||
| 5 | chip | present | children not said here | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:18.
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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