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title: A girl in Glasgow went to bed after sweets without brushing most nig… — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Glasgow went to bed after sweets without brushing most nights; at her check-up she had three cavities that needed fillings, one after another. Who acts: girl, three cavities. A sentence of the lesson «Brushing your teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Brushing your teeth, sentence 17

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A girl in Glasgow went to bed after sweets without brushing most nights; at her check-up she had three cavities that needed fillings, one after another.

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**Who acts:** girl, three cavities · **What happens:** go, brush, have, need · **To what, where:** bed, three cavities, check up, fillings

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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 (girl, three cavities), 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:17
# text = A girl in Glasgow went to bed after sweets without brushing most nights; at her check-up she had three cavities that needed fillings, one after another.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	brushing	brush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	cavities	cavity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	fillings	filling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **go** | past | a girl in Glasgow |  |  | bed | after sweets |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **brush** | gerund | a girl in Glasgow *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | girl | three cavities |  | girl's check up |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cavity=Patient |
| 4 | **need** | past | three cavities | fillings |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot filling=Theme |

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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): no change. **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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