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title: How often you eat sugar matters more than how much, because each sug… — Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the de… · tree and pragmatics
description: How often you eat sugar matters more than how much, because each sugary snack starts an acid attack that can last up to about an hour. Who acts: you, sugary snack, acid attack. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist» of the biology course of Mova's primary sc
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# Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 7

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How often you eat sugar matters more than how much, because each sugary snack starts an acid attack that can last up to about an hour.

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**Who acts:** you, sugary snack, acid attack · **What happens:** eat, matter, start, last up · **To what, where:** sugar, acid attack

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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 (you, sugary snack, acid attack), 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:7
# text = How often you eat sugar matters more than how much, because each sugary snack starts an acid attack that can last up to about an hour.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	csubj	_	_
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	sugary	sugary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
19	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **eat** | present | you | sugar |  |  |  | often *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |
| 2 | **matter** | present |  |  |  |  |  | than much | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **start** | present | each sugary snack | a acid attack |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Eventuality |
| 4 | **last up** | can | a acid attack |  |  |  | hour |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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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**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:7`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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