Teeth and their care, sentence 15
Germs in the mouth turn sugar into acid that damages enamel.
Who acts: Germs, acid · What happens: turn, damage · To what, where: sugar, acid, enamel
This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth and their care» of the world 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 (Germs, acid), 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 | Germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 mouth | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mouth | det |
| 4 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Germs | nmod |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 acid | case |
| 8 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 damages | nsubj |
| 10 | damages | damage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 acid | acl:relcl |
| 11 | enamel | enamel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 damages | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | Germs in the mouth | sugar | acid | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme into acid=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | damage | present | acid | enamel | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enamel=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:world:035-teeth-and-care.lesson:15.
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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