The dentist and washing your hands, sentence 16

A boy in Leeds skipped his dentist check-ups for two years; a small hole the dentist would have found early grew so big that the tooth needed a root treatment.

Who acts: boy, dentist, small hole, tooth · What happens: skip, find, grow, need · To what, where: dentist check ups, small hole, root treatment

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 (boy, dentist, small hole, tooth), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 skipped	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ups	nmod:poss
7	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ups	compound
8	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ups	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 ups	punct
10	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 skipped	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 years	case
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 skipped	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 grew	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hole	det
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hole	amod
17	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grew	nsubj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dentist	det
19	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 found	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 found	aux
22	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 hole	acl:relcl
23	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 found	advmod
24	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 skipped	parataxis
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 big	advmod
26	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grew	xcomp
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 needed	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tooth	det
29	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 needed	nsubj
30	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 big	ccomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 treatment	det
32	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 treatment	compound
33	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 needed	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 skipped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	skip	past	a boy in Leeds	boy's dentist check ups	year		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Agent
2	find	would · perfect	the dentist	a small hole not said here		early property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Topic
3	grow	past	a small hole			big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	need	past	the tooth	a root treatment			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treatment=Theme

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:16.

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, R5-strong ×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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