--- title: George Washington's false teeth were made of hippo ivory, metal and… — Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the de… · tree and pragmatics description: George Washington's false teeth were made of hippo ivory, metal and human and animal teeth, not wood, which would soften and rot in a wet mouth. Who acts: wood. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/352-teeth-enamel-sugar-holes-brushing-and-the-dentist/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/352-teeth-enamel-sugar-holes-brushing-and-the-dentist/) / 16 # Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 16 George Washington's false teeth were made of hippo ivory, metal and human and animal teeth, not wood, which would soften and rot in a wet mouth. **Who acts:** wood · **What happens:** make, soften, rot · **To what, where:** false teeth, wet mouth 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 (wood), 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:16 # text = George Washington's false teeth were made of hippo ivory, metal and human and animal teeth, not wood, which would soften and rot in a wet mouth. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 George George PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 2 Washington Washington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 4 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 hippo hippo NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 ivory ivory NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound 17 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 soften soften VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 rot rot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past · passive | | George's false teeth | | | | of hippo ivory and metal and teeth and wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **soften** | would | wood | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **rot** | infinitive | wood *not said here* | | | a wet mouth | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:352-teeth-enamel-sugar-holes-brushing-and-the-dentist.lesson:16`. **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, R7-rel-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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