Teeth and their care, sentence 5
But germs in the mouth eat sugar left on the teeth and make acid, and the acid makes holes called cavities.
Who acts: germs, acid, holes · What happens: eat, leave, make, call · To what, where: sugar, teeth, acid, holes, cavities · Speech: someone speaks here
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, holes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 eat | cc |
| 2 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 mouth | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mouth | det |
| 5 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 germs | nmod |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | obj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sugar | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 teeth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 teeth | det |
| 11 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 left | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eat | conj |
| 14 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 makes | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 makes | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 acid | det |
| 18 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 makes | nsubj |
| 19 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eat | conj |
| 20 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 makes | obj |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 holes | acl |
| 22 | cavities | cavity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 called | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | germs in the mouth | sugar | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | sugar not said here | the teeth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on tooth=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | present | germs in the mouth not said here | acid | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product | ||||
| 4 | make | present | the acid | holes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | ||||
| 5 | call | participle | holes not said here | cavities | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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