--- title: A brown crust on a pet's teeth is tartar; food and germs build up on… — The vet · tree and pragmatics description: A brown crust on a pet's teeth is tartar; food and germs build up on teeth, make the gums sore and can make teeth fall out. Who acts: brown crust, food, you, teeth. 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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 (brown crust, food, you, teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:227-the-vet.lesson:12 # text = A brown crust on a pet's teeth is tartar; food and germs build up on teeth, make the gums sore and can make teeth fall out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 227-the-vet.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 crust crust NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 tartar tartar NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 20 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 gums gum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 27 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a brown crust on a pet's teeth | tartar | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **build up** | present | food and germs | | | teeth | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | sore *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **make** | can | you *not said here* | teeth | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fall out** | infinitive | teeth *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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](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:biology:227-the-vet.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [The vet, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/11/) - next →: [The vet, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/)