The dentist and washing your hands, sentence 19

A dentist can find a small cavity before it hurts and fill it quickly; left alone, it grows and needs much bigger treatment.

Who acts: dentist · What happens: find, hurt, fill, leave, grow, need · To what, where: small cavity, dentist, bigger 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 (dentist), 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	4 find	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cavity	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cavity	amod
7	cavity	cavity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 hurts	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hurts	nsubj
10	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 find	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fill	cc
12	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 find	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fill	obj
14	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	12 fill	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 left	punct
16	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 grows	advcl
17	alone	alone	ADV	_	16 left	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grows	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grows	nsubj
20	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 find	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 needs	cc
22	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 grows	conj
23	much	much	ADV	_	24 bigger	advmod
24	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 treatment	amod
25	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needs	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	can	a dentist	a small cavity		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cavity=Topic
2	hurt	present	dentist			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
3	fill	infinitive	a dentist not said here	dentist	quickly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	leave	participle	dentist not said here		alone property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	grow	present	dentist			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	need	present	dentist not said here	bigger 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:19.

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): no change. 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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