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title: A boy in Texas has a numbing injection at the dentist; his lip feels… — Teeth, nails, baths and toilets · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Texas has a numbing injection at the dentist; his lip feels fat and strange for a few hours, so he takes care not to bite or chew it, because he could hurt it without feeling any pain. Who acts: boy, lip. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» of the everyday course of M
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# Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, sentence 3

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A boy in Texas has a numbing injection at the dentist; his lip feels fat and strange for a few hours, so he takes care not to bite or chew it, because he could hurt it without feeling any pain.

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**Who acts:** boy, lip · **What happens:** have, numb, feel, take, not bite, chew · **To what, where:** numbing injection, dentist, care, pain

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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 (boy, lip), 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:3
# text = A boy in Texas has a numbing injection at the dentist; his lip feels fat and strange for a few hours, so he takes care not to bite or chew it, because he could hurt it without feeling any pain.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	numbing	numb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	injection	injection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
27	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	chew	chew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:conj
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
41	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
42	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	43	det	_	_
43	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **have** | present | a boy in Texas | a numbing injection |  | the dentist |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injection=Patient |
| 2 | **numb** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **feel** | present | boy's lip |  |  |  | hour | fat *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **take** | present | lip | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **bite** | to-infinitive | lip *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **chew** | infinitive | lip *not said here* | care |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 7 | **hurt** | could | lip | care |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
| 8 | **feel** | gerund | lip *not said here* | any pain |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×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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