Sugar, teeth and the dentist, sentence 10

Fissure sealants are thin plastic coatings painted into the grooves of back teeth to keep food and bacteria out, but they don't replace brushing.

Who acts: Fissure sealants, teeth · What happens: be, paint, keep, not replace · To what, where: thin plastic coatings, grooves, food, brushing

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 (Fissure sealants, teeth), 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	Fissure	fissure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sealants	compound
2	sealants	sealant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 coatings	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 coatings	cop
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coatings	amod
5	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coatings	amod
6	coatings	coating	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 coatings	acl
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 grooves	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grooves	det
10	grooves	groove	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 painted	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 teeth	case
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 teeth	compound
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grooves	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 keep	mark
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 painted	advcl
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 keep	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bacteria	cc
18	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 food	conj
19	out	out	ADV	_	15 keep	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 replace	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 replace	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 replace	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 replace	aux
24	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 replace	advmod
25	replace	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 coatings	conj
26	brushing	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 replace	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 coatings	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fissure sealants	thin plastic coatings			tree rules
2	paint	participle		thin plastic coatings not said here	the grooves of back teeth		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent into groove=Destination
3	keep	to-infinitive		food and bacteria		out property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
4	not replace	present · do-support	teeth = tooth	brushing			vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme brush=Co-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:medicine:024-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist.lesson:10.

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 ×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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