The dentist and washing your hands, sentence 9
With a brace you brush very carefully around the wires and avoid sticky and hard food.
Who acts: you · What happens: brush, avoid · To what, where: wires, sticky food
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 (you), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 brace | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 brace | det |
| 3 | brace | brace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brush | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 brush | nsubj |
| 5 | brush | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 carefully | advmod |
| 7 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 5 brush | advmod |
| 8 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 wires | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wires | det |
| 10 | wires | wire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brush | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 avoid | cc |
| 12 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 brush | conj |
| 13 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 food | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hard | cc |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sticky | conj |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 avoid | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brush | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush | present | you | the wires | with a brace; carefully property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with brace=Theme | |||
| 2 | avoid | infinitive | you not said here | sticky food | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent food=Location |
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:9.
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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