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title: Cheese and sugar-free gum after a meal make you produce more saliva,… — Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the de… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cheese and sugar-free gum after a meal make you produce more saliva, which washes teeth and helps bring the mouth's acid back to normal. Who acts: Cheese, you, more saliva. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist» of the biology course of Mova's primary school
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# Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 14

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Cheese and sugar-free gum after a meal make you produce more saliva, which washes teeth and helps bring the mouth's acid back to normal.

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**Who acts:** Cheese, you, more saliva · **What happens:** make, produce, wash, help, bring · **To what, where:** you, more saliva, teeth, acid

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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 (Cheese, you, more saliva), 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:14
# text = Cheese and sugar-free gum after a meal make you produce more saliva, which washes teeth and helps bring the mouth's acid back to normal.
# 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 ×1
1	Cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	gum	gum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	produce	produce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	saliva	saliva	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	washes	wash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **make** | infinitive | Cheese and sugar free gum after a meal | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **produce** | infinitive | you *not said here* | more saliva |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saliva=Result |
| 3 | **wash** | present | more saliva | teeth |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 4 | **help** | present | more saliva *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | infinitive | more saliva *not said here* | the mouth's acid |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent acid=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 ×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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