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title: Food stuck between teeth is removed with floss, never with a fork, p… — Teeth, nails, baths and toilets · tree and pragmatics
description: Food stuck between teeth is removed with floss, never with a fork, pin or other sharp object, which can cut gums and chip teeth. Who acts: other sharp object. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, sentence 8

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Food stuck between teeth is removed with floss, never with a fork, pin or other sharp object, which can cut gums and chip teeth.

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**Who acts:** other sharp object · **What happens:** stick, remove, cut · **To what, where:** Food, teeth, gums

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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 (other sharp object), 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:8
# text = Food stuck between teeth is removed with floss, never with a fork, pin or other sharp object, which can cut gums and chip teeth.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	floss	floss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	gums	gum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | participle |  | Food *not said here* |  | teeth |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme between tooth=Destination |
| 2 | **remove** | present · passive |  | Food |  |  |  | with floss and a fork and pin or other sharp object | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **cut** | can | other sharp object | gums and chip teeth |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gum=Product |

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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): 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.

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