A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport, sentence 13
Each time sugar touches the teeth, acid attacks them for a while, so sweets drip-fed through training mean many attacks; with a meal in one go is kinder to teeth.
Who acts: time sugar, acid, meal · What happens: touch, attack, feed, mean, be · To what, where: teeth, sweets, training
This is a sentence of the lesson «A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport» 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 (time sugar, acid, meal), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sugar | compound |
| 3 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touches | nsubj |
| 4 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 teeth | det |
| 6 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 touches | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 attacks | punct |
| 8 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attacks | nsubj |
| 9 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 touches | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 attacks | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 while | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 while | det |
| 13 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attacks | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fed | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 mean | advmod |
| 16 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 mean | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | drip | drip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fed | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 drip | punct |
| 19 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 sweets | acl |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 training | case |
| 21 | training | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fed | obl |
| 22 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 touches | conj |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 attacks | amod |
| 24 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 mean | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 kinder | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 meal | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 meal | det |
| 28 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kinder | nsubj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 go | case |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 go | nummod |
| 31 | go | go | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 meal | nmod |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 kinder | cop |
| 33 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 touches | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 teeth | case |
| 35 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 kinder | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 touches | 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 | touch | present | time sugar | the teeth | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tooth=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | attack | acid | teeth = tooth | while | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feed | participle | sweets not said here | training | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mean | present · passive | sweets | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | present | a meal in one go | to teeth; kind property | tree rules |
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:054-a-balanced-plate-for-a-kid-who-plays-sport.lesson:13.
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 ×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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