--- title: A filling repairs a hole in a tooth; the dentist numbs the area firs… — Sore backs, glasses and feeling low · tree and pragmatics description: A filling repairs a hole in a tooth; the dentist numbs the area first, and the numbness lasts a couple of hours, so talking and eating are hard. Who acts: filling, dentist, numbness. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (filling, dentist, numbness), 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:12 # text = A filling repairs a hole in a tooth; the dentist numbs the area first, and the numbness lasts a couple of hours, so talking and eating are hard. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 filling filling NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 repairs repair VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dentist dentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 numbs numb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 numbness numbness NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 lasts last VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **repair** | present | a filling | a hole | | a tooth | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | | 2 | **numb** | present | the dentist | the area | | | | first *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus area=Experiencer | | 3 | **last** | present | the numbness | a couple of hours | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme couple=Value | | 4 | **talk** | gerund | the numbness *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **eat** | gerund | the numbness *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | | | hard *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](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:12`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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