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title: Disclosing tablets colour plaque pink so you can see where you misse… — Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the de… · tree and pragmatics
description: Disclosing tablets colour plaque pink so you can see where you missed, and plaque left for days can harden into tartar, which only a dentist or hygienist can scrape off. Who acts: Disclosing tablets, you, plaque, dentist. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentis
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# Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist, sentence 8

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Disclosing tablets colour plaque pink so you can see where you missed, and plaque left for days can harden into tartar, which only a dentist or hygienist can scrape off.

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**Who acts:** Disclosing tablets, you, plaque, dentist · **What happens:** disclose, colour, see, miss, leave, harden · **To what, where:** plaque, tartar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Disclosing tablets, you, plaque, dentist), 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:8
# text = Disclosing tablets colour plaque pink so you can see where you missed, and plaque left for days can harden into tartar, which only a dentist or hygienist can scrape off.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Disclosing	disclose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	compound	_	_
2	tablets	tablet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	colour	colour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	plaque	plaque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	plaque	plaque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	harden	harden	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	tartar	tartar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	hygienist	hygienist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
32	off	off	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **disclose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **colour** | present | Disclosing tablets | plaque |  |  |  | pink *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **miss** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **leave** | participle |  | plaque *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **harden** | can | plaque |  |  | tartar |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **scrape off** | can | a dentist or hygienist | tartar |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |

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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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**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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