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title: After brushing you spit out the toothpaste but do not rinse with lot… — Teeth, nails, baths and toilets · tree and pragmatics
description: After brushing you spit out the toothpaste but do not rinse with lots of water straight away, because the fluoride left on the teeth keeps protecting them for longer. Who acts: you, fluoride. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school w
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# Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, sentence 1

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After brushing you spit out the toothpaste but do not rinse with lots of water straight away, because the fluoride left on the teeth keeps protecting them for longer.

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**Who acts:** you, fluoride · **What happens:** brush, spit out, not rinse, leave, keep, protect · **To what, where:** toothpaste, fluoride, teeth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» of the everyday 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, fluoride), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.lesson:1
# text = After brushing you spit out the toothpaste but do not rinse with lots of water straight away, because the fluoride left on the teeth keeps protecting them for longer.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.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	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	brushing	brush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spit	spit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	rinse	rinse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fluoride	fluoride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
27	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spit out** | present | you | the toothpaste |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent toothpaste=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **rinse** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with lots of water; away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **leave** | participle |  | the fluoride *not said here* |  | the teeth |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on tooth=Location |
| 5 | **keep** | present | the fluoride |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **protect** | gerund | the fluoride *not said here* | teeth *= tooth* |  |  |  | for longer | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |

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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:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.lesson:1`.

**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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