The dentist and washing your hands, sentence 0

A dentist is a doctor for teeth: they look for holes, clean the teeth, and fix small problems before they become big and painful ones.

Who acts: dentist, teeth · What happens: be, look, clean, fix, become · To what, where: doctor, teeth, small problems, big ones

This is a sentence of the lesson «The dentist and washing your hands» 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 (dentist, teeth), 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 dentist	det
2	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doctor	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doctor	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 doctor	det
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 teeth	case
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 doctor	nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 look	nsubj
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doctor	parataxis
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 holes	case
12	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 look	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clean	punct
14	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 look	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 teeth	det
16	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 clean	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fix	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fix	cc
19	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 look	conj
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 problems	amod
21	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fix	obj
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 become	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 become	nsubj
24	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fix	advcl
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ones	amod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 painful	cc
27	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 big	conj
28	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 become	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 doctor	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a dentist	a doctor	for teeth	tree rules
2	look	present	teeth = tooth		for holes	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for hole=Theme
3	clean	present	teeth = tooth not said here	the teeth		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
4	fix	present	teeth = tooth not said here	small problems		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent problem=Patient
5	become	present	teeth = tooth	big ones		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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:075-the-dentist-and-washing-hands.lesson:0.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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