--- title: A boy in Texas hardly brushed for a year; a hole grew in a back toot… — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas hardly brushed for a year; a hole grew in a back tooth, it began to throb at night, and the dentist had to take the tooth out. Who acts: boy, hole, enamel, dentist. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, hole, enamel, dentist), 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:16 # text = A boy in Texas hardly brushed for a year; a hole grew in a back tooth, it began to throb at night, and the dentist had to take the tooth out. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 brushed brush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 throb throb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dentist dentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 35 . . 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 | **brush** | past | a boy in Texas | | | | year | hardly *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **grow** | past | a hole | | | a back tooth | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tooth=Location | | 3 | **begin** | past | enamel | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **throb** | to-infinitive | enamel *not said here* | | | | night | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | the dentist | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **take out** | to-infinitive | the dentist *not said here* | the tooth | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme | 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:16`. **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/). - ← previous: [Brushing your teeth, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/15/) - next →: [Brushing your teeth, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/)