--- title: Plaque is a sticky film of bacteria on teeth; they feed on sugar and… — Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad · tree and pragmatics description: Plaque is a sticky film of bacteria on teeth; they feed on sugar and make acid that slowly dissolves the enamel and makes holes; a dentist's pink disclosing tablet colours the plaque you missed brushing. Who acts: Plaque, teeth, acid, pink tablet. 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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, teeth, acid, pink tablet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.lesson:15 # text = Plaque is a sticky film of bacteria on teeth; they feed on sugar and make acid that slowly dissolves the enamel and makes holes; a dentist's pink disclosing tablet colours the plaque you missed brushing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.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 ×1 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 sticky sticky 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 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 dissolves dissolve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 enamel enamel NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 25 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dentist dentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 disclosing disclose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 acl _ _ 32 tablet tablet NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 colours colour VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 plaque plaque NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 missed miss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 brushing brush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 xcomp _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Plaque | a sticky film | | | | of bacteria on teeth | tree rules | | 2 | **feed** | present | teeth *= tooth* | | | | | on sugar | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on sugar=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | teeth *= tooth* *not said here* | acid | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product | | 4 | **dissolve** | present | acid | the enamel | | | | slowly *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enamel=Patient | | 5 | **make** | present | acid *not said here* | holes | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | | 6 | **disclose** | gerund | a dentist's pink tablet *not said here* | | | | | | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **colour** | present | a dentist's pink tablet | the plaque | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **miss** | past | you | the plaque *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **brush** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «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. 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