Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 7
Sugary and fizzy drinks cause tooth decay, so water and milk are the best everyday drinks.
Who acts: Sugary drinks, water · What happens: cause, be · To what, where: tooth decay, best everyday drinks
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 (Sugary drinks, water), 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 | Sugary | sugary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drinks | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fizzy | cc |
| 3 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sugary | conj |
| 4 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cause | nsubj |
| 5 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 decay | compound |
| 7 | decay | decay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cause | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drinks | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 drinks | advmod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drinks | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 milk | cc |
| 12 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 water | conj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 drinks | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 drinks | det |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 drinks | amod |
| 16 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 drinks | amod |
| 17 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cause | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | Sugary drinks | tooth decay | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition decay=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | water and milk | the best everyday drinks | tree rules |
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:7.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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