The dentist and washing your hands, sentence 1

Feeling nervous is normal; you can tell the dentist, ask what they will do, and agree a signal, like raising your hand, for them to stop.

Who acts: Feeling, you, teeth, signal · What happens: feel, be, tell, ask, do, agree · To what, where: dentist, signal, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Feeling, you, teeth, signal), 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	Feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 normal	csubj
2	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Feeling	xcomp
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 normal	cop
4	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 normal	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dentist	det
10	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ask	punct
12	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	conj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 do	obj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ask	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 agree	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 agree	cc
19	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 signal	det
21	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 agree	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 raising	punct
23	like	like	SCONJ	_	24 raising	mark
24	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 signal	acl
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 raising	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stop	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 stop	mark
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stop	nsubj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 stop	mark
31	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 agree	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 normal	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund			nervous property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	Feeling		normal property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	can	you	the dentist		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dentist=Recipient
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do	future	teeth = tooth			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	agree speech: agree	infinitive	you not said here	a signal		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent signal=Topic
7	raise	gerund	a signal not said here	your hand		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
8	stop	to-infinitive	teeth = tooth			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:1.

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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