--- title: Plaque is a soft film of bacteria that builds up on teeth every day;… — Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the de… · tree and pragmatics description: Plaque is a soft film of bacteria that builds up on teeth every day; the bacteria eat sugar and make acid that eats into enamel. Who acts: Plaque, soft film, bacteria, acid. 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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 (Plaque, soft film, bacteria, acid), 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:6 # text = Plaque is a soft film of bacteria that builds up on teeth every day; the bacteria eat sugar and make acid that eats into enamel. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Plaque plaque NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 bacteria bacteria NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 22 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 enamel enamel NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Plaque | a soft film | | | | of bacteria | tree rules | | 2 | **build up** | present | a soft film | | | teeth | day | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **eat** | present | the bacteria | sugar | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient | | 4 | **make** | present | the bacteria *not said here* | acid | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product | | 5 | **eat** | present | acid | | | enamel | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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