Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 4
A toothbrush cannot reach between the teeth, so floss or an interdental brush is used once a day.
Who acts: toothbrush · What happens: not reach, use · To what, where: floss
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 (toothbrush), 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 toothbrush | det |
| 2 | toothbrush | toothbrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reach | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 reach | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 reach | advmod |
| 5 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 teeth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 teeth | det |
| 8 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reach | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 used | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 used | advmod |
| 11 | floss | floss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 used | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 brush | cc |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 brush | det |
| 14 | interdental | interdental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 brush | amod |
| 15 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 floss | conj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 used | aux:pass |
| 17 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 reach | parataxis |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | _ | 17 used | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 once | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reach | can | a toothbrush | between the teeth | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | use | present · passive | floss or a interdental brush | once property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:4.
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 ×2, 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.
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