--- title: A girl in New Zealand hardly brushed her teeth and drank fizzy drink… — Teeth, nails, baths and toilets · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in New Zealand hardly brushed her teeth and drank fizzy drinks every day; at nine she needed several fillings and one tooth taken out. Who acts: girl. 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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 (girl), 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:18 # text = A girl in New Zealand hardly brushed her teeth and drank fizzy drinks every day; at nine she needed several fillings and one tooth taken out. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 New New PROPN NNP _ 5 flat _ _ 5 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 brushed brush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 fizzy fizzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 drinks drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 21 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 fillings filling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 26 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **brush** | past | a girl in New Zealand | girl's teeth | | | | hardly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme | | 2 | **drink** | past | a girl in New Zealand *not said here* | fizzy drinks | | | day | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient | | 3 | **need** | past | girl | several fillings and one tooth | | nine | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot filling=Theme | | 4 | **take out** | participle | | one tooth *not said here* | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.lesson:18`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/17/) - next →: [Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/)