--- title: Acidic drinks like orange juice soften the tooth enamel for a while,… — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics description: Acidic drinks like orange juice soften the tooth enamel for a while, so you brush before breakfast or wait about an hour after it before brushing. Who acts: Acidic drinks, you. A sentence of the lesson «Brushing your teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Brushing your teeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/) / 15 # Brushing your teeth, sentence 15 Acidic drinks like orange juice soften the tooth enamel for a while, so you brush before breakfast or wait about an hour after it before brushing. **Who acts:** Acidic drinks, you · **What happens:** soften, brush, wait · **To what, where:** tooth enamel, breakfast This is a sentence of the lesson «Brushing your teeth» 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 (Acidic drinks, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:073-brushing-your-teeth.lesson:15 # text = Acidic drinks like orange juice soften the tooth enamel for a while, so you brush before breakfast or wait about an hour after it before brushing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 073-brushing-your-teeth.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 Acidic acidic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 drinks drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 juice juice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 soften soften VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 enamel enamel NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 brush brush VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 before before ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 after after ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 26 before before SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 brushing brush VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **soften** | present | Acidic drinks like orange juice | the tooth enamel | | | while | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent enamel=Patient | | 2 | **brush** | present | you | | | breakfast | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before breakfast=Destination | | 3 | **wait** | present | you *not said here* | | | | after enamel; hour | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **brush** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: 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:073-brushing-your-teeth.lesson:15`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Brushing your teeth, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/14/) - next →: [Brushing your teeth, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/)