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title: Dentists check teeth every six months to a year to catch small probl… — Sore backs, glasses and feeling low · tree and pragmatics
description: Dentists check teeth every six months to a year to catch small problems, like holes, before they hurt. Who acts: Dentists. A sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 11

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Dentists check teeth every six months to a year to catch small problems, like holes, before they hurt.

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**Who acts:** Dentists · **What happens:** check, catch, hurt · **To what, where:** teeth, small problems

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life 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 (Dentists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:11
# text = Dentists check teeth every six months to a year to catch small problems, like holes, before they hurt.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Dentists	dentist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	check	check	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | present | Dentists | teeth |  |  | month; year |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Dentists *not said here* | small problems |  |  |  | like holes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme |
| 3 | **hurt** | present | Dentists *= dentist* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:11`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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