--- title: It comes from bacteria living in a soft sticky film on your teeth, c… — Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the de… · tree and pragmatics description: It comes from bacteria living in a soft sticky film on your teeth, called plaque, which feast on sugar and spit out acid. Who acts: Acid, bacteria, plaque. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 2 It comes from bacteria living in a soft sticky film on your teeth, called plaque, which feast on sugar and spit out acid. **Who acts:** Acid, bacteria, plaque · **What happens:** come, live, call, feast, spit out · **To what, where:** bacteria, soft sticky film, plaque, acid · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Acid, bacteria, plaque), 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:2 # text = It comes from bacteria living in a soft sticky film on your teeth, called plaque, which feast on sugar and spit out acid. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 16 plaque plaque NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Int 19 nsubj _ _ 19 feast feast VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 spit spit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Acid | | | bacteria | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bacterium=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **live** | gerund | bacteria *not said here* | | | a soft sticky film on your teeth and plaque | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=Location | | 3 | **call** | participle | | plaque *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **feast** | present | plaque | | | | | on sugar | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on sugar=Patient | | 5 | **spit out** | present | plaque *not said here* | acid | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent acid=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:352-teeth-enamel-sugar-holes-brushing-and-the-dentist.lesson:2`. **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): 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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