Sugar, teeth and the dentist, sentence 5
How often you eat sugar matters most for teeth, because each sugary snack starts an acid attack of about an hour.
Who acts: you, sugary snack · What happens: eat, matter, start, attack · To what, where: sugar, acid attack, hour
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 (you, sugary snack), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 often | advmod |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 eat | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 matters | csubj |
| 5 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | obj |
| 6 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 matters | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 teeth | case |
| 9 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 matters | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 starts | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 starts | mark |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 snack | det |
| 13 | sugary | sugary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 snack | amod |
| 14 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 starts | nsubj |
| 15 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 matters | advcl |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 attack | det |
| 17 | acid | acid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 attack | amod |
| 18 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 starts | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hour | case |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 hour | advmod |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hour | det |
| 22 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 attack | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 matters | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | you | sugar | often property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient | |||
| 2 | matter | present | for teeth | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | start | present | each sugary snack | a acid attack of a hour | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | attack | a hour | nom attack «act transitive»: of=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:5.
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. 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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