--- title: Tooth decay (dentists call it caries) is the most common long-lastin… — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics description: Tooth decay (dentists call it caries) is the most common long-lasting disease of children, and it is almost always preventable. Who acts: dentists, Tooth decay, 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 (dentists, Tooth decay, 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:18 # text = Tooth decay (dentists call it caries) is the most common long-lasting disease of children, and it is almost always preventable. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 decay decay NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 4 dentists dentist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 caries caries NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 11 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 12 advmod _ _ 12 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 lasting last VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 almost almost ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 24 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 25 advmod _ _ 25 preventable preventable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present | dentists | decay | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 2 | **last** | gerund | | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | Tooth decay | the common lasting disease | | | | of children | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | dentist | | | | | always, preventable *property* | tree rules | 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:18`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/17/) - next →: [Brushing your teeth, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/)