Sugar, teeth and the dentist, sentence 14
Tooth decay is the most common reason children in the UK need an operation in hospital, usually to remove teeth.
Who acts: Tooth decay, children · What happens: be, need, remove · To what, where: common reason, operation, hospital, teeth
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 (Tooth decay, children), 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 | Tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 decay | compound |
| 2 | decay | decay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reason | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 reason | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reason | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 common | advmod |
| 6 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reason | amod |
| 7 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 need | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 UK | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 UK | det |
| 11 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 children | nmod |
| 12 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 reason | acl:relcl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 operation | det |
| 14 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 need | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hospital | case |
| 16 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 operation | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 remove | punct |
| 18 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 20 remove | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 remove | mark |
| 20 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 need | advcl |
| 21 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 remove | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Tooth decay | the common reason | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | children in the UK | a operation | hospital | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot operation=Theme | |||
| 3 | remove | to-infinitive | children in the UK not said here | teeth | usually property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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:14.
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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