Sugar, teeth and the dentist, sentence 11

Braces slowly move teeth with steady pressure over months or years, and an orthodontist usually decides on them around age 12 or older; they are not only for looks, because straighter teeth can bite better and are easier to clean.

Who acts: Braces, orthodontist, teeth, straighter teeth · What happens: move, decide, not be, bite, be, clean · To what, where: teeth, age, 12

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 (Braces, orthodontist, teeth, straighter 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	Braces	brace	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	nsubj
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 move	advmod
3	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 pressure	case
6	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pressure	amod
7	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 move	obl
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 months	case
9	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 years	cc
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 months	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 decides	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 decides	cc
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 orthodontist	det
15	orthodontist	orthodontist	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 decides	nsubj
16	usually	usually	ADV	_	17 decides	advmod
17	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 move	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 decides	obl
20	around	around	ADP	_	22 12	case
21	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 decides	obl
22	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 decides	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 older	cc
24	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 12	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 move	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 looks	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 looks	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 looks	advmod
29	only	only	ADV	_	31 looks	advmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 looks	case
31	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 looks	punct
33	because	because	SCONJ	_	37 bite	mark
34	straighter	straight	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 teeth	amod
35	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 bite	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 bite	aux
37	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 move	advcl
38	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 bite	advmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 easier	cc
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 easier	cop
41	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 bite	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 clean	mark
43	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 easier	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 move	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	Braces	teeth		month	with steady pressure; slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme tooth=Result
2	decide	present	a orthodontist	age	12		on teeth = tooth; usually property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on they=Topic
3	not is	present	teeth = tooth				for looks	tree rules
4	bite	can	straighter teeth				well property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	straighter teeth not said here				easy property	tree rules
6	clean	to-infinitive	straighter teeth not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:11.

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. 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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