Teeth and their care, sentence 6
Brushing twice a day with fluoride toothpaste, eating fewer sugary snacks and visiting the dentist keep teeth healthy.
Who acts: Brushing · What happens: brush, eat, visit, keep · To what, where: fewer sugary snacks, dentist, teeth
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 (Brushing), 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 | Brushing | brush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 keep | csubj |
| 2 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Brushing | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twice | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 toothpaste | case |
| 6 | fluoride | fluoride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 toothpaste | compound |
| 7 | toothpaste | toothpaste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brushing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eating | punct |
| 9 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Brushing | conj |
| 10 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 snacks | amod |
| 11 | sugary | sugary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 snacks | amod |
| 12 | snacks | snack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eating | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 visiting | cc |
| 14 | visiting | visit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 eating | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dentist | det |
| 16 | dentist | dentist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 visiting | obj |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 keep | obj |
| 19 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 keep | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush | gerund | with fluoride toothpaste; twice property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with toothpaste=Instrument | |||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | fewer sugary snacks | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Patient | |||||
| 3 | visit | gerund | the dentist | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dentist=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | keep | present | Brushing | teeth | healthy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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:world:035-teeth-and-care.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 ×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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