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title: Use dental floss to clean between your teeth; never use a fork, pin… — Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Use dental floss to clean between your teeth; never use a fork, pin or other sharp object, which can cut the gums and chip teeth. Who acts: you, other sharp object. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food, sentence 7

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Use dental floss to clean between your teeth; never use a fork, pin or other sharp object, which can cut the gums and chip teeth.

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**Who acts:** you, other sharp object · **What happens:** use, clean, not use, cut, chip · **To what, where:** dental floss, fork, gums, teeth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» 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, 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:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:7
# text = Use dental floss to clean between your teeth; never use a fork, pin or other sharp object, which can cut the gums and chip teeth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	dental	dental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	floss	floss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	gums	gum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
27	chip	chip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
28	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | dental floss |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floss=Patient |
| 2 | **clean** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between your teeth | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **use** | infinitive |  | a fork and pin or other sharp object |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fork=Patient |
| 4 | **cut** | can | other sharp object | the gums |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gum=Product |
| 5 | **chip** | infinitive | other sharp object *not said here* | teeth |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |

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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:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:7`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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/).

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