Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 6

Sharp things like forks and pins cut the gums and can chip teeth, so they are never used to pick the teeth.

Who acts: Sharp things · What happens: cut, chip, not use, pick · To what, where: gums, 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 (Sharp things), 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	Sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cut	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 forks	case
4	forks	fork	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 things	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pins	cc
6	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forks	conj
7	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gums	det
9	gums	gum	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cut	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 chip	cc
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 chip	aux
12	chip	chip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cut	conj
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 chip	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 used	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 used	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 used	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 used	aux:pass
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 used	advmod
19	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cut	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 pick	mark
21	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 used	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 teeth	det
23	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pick	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cut	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cut	present	Sharp things like forks and pins	the gums	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gum=Product
2	chip	can	Sharp things like forks and pins not said here	teeth	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
3	not use	present · passive		teeth = tooth	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	pick	to-infinitive		the teeth	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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:6.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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