--- title: Brush twice a day for about two minutes with fluoride toothpaste, th… — Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the de… · tree and pragmatics description: Brush twice a day for about two minutes with fluoride toothpaste, then spit but do not rinse, so the fluoride stays on the teeth; fluoride makes enamel stronger against acid. Who acts: you, fluoride. 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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, fluoride), 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:9 # text = Brush twice a day for about two minutes with fluoride toothpaste, then spit but do not rinse, so the fluoride stays on the teeth; fluoride makes enamel stronger against 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Brush brush VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 1 advmod _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 fluoride fluoride NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 toothpaste toothpaste NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 14 spit spit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 rinse rinse VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fluoride fluoride NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 fluoride fluoride NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 30 enamel enamel NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 xcomp _ _ 32 against against ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **brush** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | minute | with fluoride toothpaste; twice *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with toothpaste=Instrument | | 2 | **spit** | infinitive | | | | | then | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **rinse** | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stay** | present | the fluoride | | | the teeth | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tooth=Location | | 5 | **make** | present | fluoride | enamel | | | | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset enamel=Product | 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:9`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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