Sugar, teeth and the dentist, sentence 3

Fluoride toothpaste is the best defence: it hardens enamel and mends early damage, which is why you spit after brushing but don't rinse it away.

Who acts: Fluoride toothpaste, toothpaste, early damage, you · What happens: be, harden, mend, spit, brush, not rinse away · To what, where: best defence, enamel, early damage

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 (Fluoride toothpaste, toothpaste, early damage, 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	Fluoride	fluoride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 toothpaste	compound
2	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 defence	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 defence	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 defence	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 defence	amod
6	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 hardens	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hardens	nsubj
9	hardens	harden	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 defence	parataxis
10	enamel	enamel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hardens	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mends	cc
12	mends	mend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hardens	conj
13	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 damage	amod
14	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mends	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 why	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 why	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 why	cop
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 damage	acl:relcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 spit	nsubj
20	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 why	advcl
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 brushing	mark
22	brushing	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 spit	advcl
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 rinse	cc
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 rinse	aux
25	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 rinse	advmod
26	rinse	rinse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 spit	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 rinse	obj
28	away	away	ADV	_	26 rinse	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 defence	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fluoride toothpaste	the best defence		tree rules
2	harden	present	toothpaste	enamel		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent enamel=Patient
3	mend	present	toothpaste not said here	early damage		tree rules
4	is	present	early damage		why property	tree rules
5	spit	present	you			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	brush	gerund	you not said here			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not rinse away	infinitive · do-support	you not said here	enamel	away property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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:3.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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