Sugar, teeth and the dentist, sentence 0
A sticky film called plaque, full of bacteria, grows on your teeth every day; when you eat sugar the bacteria feed on it and make acid that dissolves the hard enamel.
Who acts: sticky film, you, bacteria, acid · What happens: call, grow, eat, feed, make, dissolve · To what, where: plaque, teeth, sugar, acid, hard enamel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sugar, teeth and the dentist» of the medicine 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 (sticky film, you, bacteria, acid), 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 | 3 film | det |
| 2 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 film | amod |
| 3 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grows | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 film | acl |
| 5 | plaque | plaque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 full | punct |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 film | amod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bacteria | case |
| 9 | bacteria | bacterium | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 full | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 film | punct |
| 11 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 teeth | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 grows | obl |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grows | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 eat | punct |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 eat | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 eat | nsubj |
| 20 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 feed | advcl |
| 21 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eat | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bacteria | det |
| 23 | bacteria | bacterium | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 feed | nsubj |
| 24 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 grows | parataxis |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 feed | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 make | cc |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 feed | conj |
| 29 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 dissolves | nsubj |
| 31 | dissolves | dissolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 acid | acl:relcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 enamel | det |
| 33 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 enamel | amod |
| 34 | enamel | enamel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dissolves | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a sticky film not said here | plaque | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | a sticky film | your teeth | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tooth=Location | |||
| 3 | eat | present | you | sugar | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient | ||||
| 4 | feed | present | the bacteria | on film | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | the bacteria not said here | acid | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product | ||||
| 6 | dissolve | present | acid | the hard enamel | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enamel=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:medicine:024-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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