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title: Under the enamel is dentine, full of tiny tubes leading towards the… — Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the de… · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the enamel is dentine, full of tiny tubes leading towards the pulp, the soft middle with the nerve; if enamel or gum wears thin, cold or heat reaches the nerve and the tooth zings. Who acts: enamel, tiny tubes, dentine. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the de
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# Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 12

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Under the enamel is dentine, full of tiny tubes leading towards the pulp, the soft middle with the nerve; if enamel or gum wears thin, cold or heat reaches the nerve and the tooth zings.

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**Who acts:** enamel, tiny tubes, dentine · **What happens:** be, lead, wear, reach · **To what, where:** dentine, pulp, nerve

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist» of the biology 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 (enamel, tiny tubes, dentine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:352-teeth-enamel-sugar-holes-brushing-and-the-dentist.lesson:12
# text = Under the enamel is dentine, full of tiny tubes leading towards the pulp, the soft middle with the nerve; if enamel or gum wears thin, cold or heat reaches the nerve and the tooth zings.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 352-teeth-enamel-sugar-holes-brushing-and-the-dentist.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	enamel	enamel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	dentine	dentine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tubes	tube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl
12	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pulp	pulp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	nerve	nerve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	enamel	enamel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	gum	gum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
28	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:conj
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
33	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	nerve	nerve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:nsubj
39	zings	zing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33: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 | **is** | present | the enamel |  |  | dentine and the soft middle with the nerve |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund | tiny tubes *not said here* |  |  | the pulp |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towards pulp=Destination |
| 3 | **wear** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | enamel or gum |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reach** | present | dentine and the soft middle with the nerve | the nerve |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent nerve=Theme |

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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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**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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