Sugar, teeth and the dentist, sentence 6
For a filling the dentist numbs the tooth with a local anaesthetic injection, and the lip can stay numb for a few hours, so you mustn't chew it or eat hot food until feeling returns.
Who acts: dentist, lip, you, feeling · What happens: numb, stay, not chew, eat, return · To what, where: filling, lip, hot food
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 (dentist, lip, you, feeling), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 dentist | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 filling | det |
| 3 | filling | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 numbs | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dentist | det |
| 5 | dentist | dentist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 numbs | nsubj |
| 6 | numbs | numb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tooth | det |
| 8 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 numbs | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 injection | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 injection | det |
| 11 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 injection | amod |
| 12 | anaesthetic | anaesthetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 injection | compound |
| 13 | injection | injection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 numbs | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stay | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lip | det |
| 17 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stay | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stay | aux |
| 19 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 numbs | conj |
| 20 | numb | numb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stay | xcomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 hours | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hours | det |
| 23 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hours | amod |
| 24 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 numb | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 chew | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 chew | advmod |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 chew | nsubj |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 chew | aux |
| 29 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 chew | advmod |
| 30 | chew | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stay | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 chew | obj |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 eat | cc |
| 33 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 chew | conj |
| 34 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 food | amod |
| 35 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 eat | obj |
| 36 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 38 returns | mark |
| 37 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 returns | nsubj |
| 38 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 eat | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 numbs | 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 | numb | present | the dentist | a filling | with a local anaesthetic injection | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tooth=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | stay | can | the lip | numb property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not chew | must | you | lip | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | eat | infinitive | you not said here | hot food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 5 | return | present | feeling | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:6.
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, 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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