Sugar, teeth and the dentist, sentence 4
Bacteria in plaque feed on sugar and make acid, which dissolves enamel and causes tooth decay, a hole called a cavity.
Who acts: Bacteria, acid, hole · What happens: feed, make, dissolve, cause, call · To what, where: acid, enamel, tooth decay, cavity · 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 (Bacteria, acid, hole), 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 | Bacteria | bacterium | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 feed | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 plaque | case |
| 3 | plaque | plaque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bacteria | nmod |
| 4 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 sugar | case |
| 6 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 make | cc |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feed | conj |
| 9 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dissolves | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 dissolves | nsubj |
| 12 | dissolves | dissolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 acid | acl:relcl |
| 13 | enamel | enamel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dissolves | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 causes | cc |
| 15 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dissolves | conj |
| 16 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 decay | compound |
| 17 | decay | decay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 causes | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hole | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hole | det |
| 20 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 decay | appos |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 hole | acl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cavity | det |
| 23 | cavity | cavity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present | Bacteria in plaque | on sugar | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on sugar=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Bacteria in plaque not said here | acid | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product | ||||
| 3 | dissolve | present | acid | enamel | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enamel=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cause | present | acid not said here | tooth decay | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition decay=Patient | ||||
| 5 | call | participle | a hole not said here | a cavity | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:4.
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): no change. 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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