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title: A bad cavity (a hole in a tooth) can cause toothache, an infection w… — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: A bad cavity (a hole in a tooth) can cause toothache, an infection with a swollen face, and the loss of the tooth. Who acts: bad cavity. A sentence of the lesson «Brushing your teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Brushing your teeth, sentence 19

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A bad cavity (a hole in a tooth) can cause toothache, an infection with a swollen face, and the loss of the tooth.

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**Who acts:** bad cavity · **What happens:** cause · **To what, where:** toothache

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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 (bad cavity), 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:19
# text = A bad cavity (a hole in a tooth) can cause toothache, an infection with a swollen face, and the loss of the tooth.
# 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	3	det	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cavity	cavity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	toothache	toothache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	swollen	swollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **cause** | can | a bad cavity | toothache and the loss of the tooth |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition toothache=Patient |

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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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