--- title: Think of an afternoon of nibbling sweets: every nibble starts a new… — Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the de… · tree and pragmatics description: Think of an afternoon of nibbling sweets: every nibble starts a new acid attack that can last up to about an hour, so ten small snacks hurt teeth far more than one pudding after dinner. Who acts: you, nibble, new acid attack, ten small snacks. 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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 (you, nibble, new acid attack, ten small snacks), 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:3 # text = Think of an afternoon of nibbling sweets: every nibble starts a new acid attack that can last up to about an hour, so ten small snacks hurt teeth far more than one pudding after dinner. # 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 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 nibbling nibbling NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 nibble nibble NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 attack attack NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 26 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 27 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 snacks snack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 hurt hurt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 30 teeth teeth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 32 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 pudding pudding NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 after after ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | afternoon | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **start** | present | every nibble | a new acid attack | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Eventuality | | 3 | **last up** | can | a new acid attack | | | | hour | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hurt** | past | ten small snacks | teeth | | | | than one pudding after dinner | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer teeth=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. 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