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title: To get food out from between your teeth, use dental floss, never a f… — Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, gettin… · tree and pragmatics
description: To get food out from between your teeth, use dental floss, never a fork, a pin or any sharp object, because sharp things cut the gums and chip teeth. Who acts: you, sharp things. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, sleep and safe food» of the everyday
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# Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, sleep and safe food, sentence 7

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To get food out from between your teeth, use dental floss, never a fork, a pin or any sharp object, because sharp things cut the gums and chip teeth.

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**Who acts:** you, sharp things · **What happens:** get out, use, cut · **To what, where:** food, teeth, dental floss, gums

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, 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, sharp things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:317-teeth-baths-showers-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:7
# text = To get food out from between your teeth, use dental floss, never a fork, a pin or any sharp object, because sharp things cut the gums and chip teeth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 317-teeth-baths-showers-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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
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	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	dental	dental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	floss	floss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	gums	gum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **get out** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | food |  | your teeth |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | dental floss and a fork and a pin or any sharp object |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floss=Patient |
| 3 | **cut** | present | sharp things | the 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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**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:317-teeth-baths-showers-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): 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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