Sugar, teeth and the dentist, sentence 9
Baby teeth matter because they hold the space for adult teeth.
Who acts: Baby teeth, teeth · What happens: matter, hold · To what, where: space
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 (Baby teeth, teeth), 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 | Baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 teeth | compound |
| 2 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 matter | nsubj |
| 3 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 hold | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hold | nsubj |
| 6 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 matter | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 space | det |
| 8 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hold | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 teeth | case |
| 10 | adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 teeth | amod |
| 11 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 space | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present | Baby teeth | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hold | present | teeth = tooth | the space | for adult teeth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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:9.
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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