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title: Toothpaste has fluoride, which makes teeth stronger: spit the toothp… — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: Toothpaste has fluoride, which makes teeth stronger: spit the toothpaste out, but do not rinse with lots of water, so a little fluoride stays on the teeth. Who acts: Toothpaste, fluoride, little fluoride. A sentence of the lesson «Brushing your teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school 
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# Brushing your teeth, sentence 2

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Toothpaste has fluoride, which makes teeth stronger: spit the toothpaste out, but do not rinse with lots of water, so a little fluoride stays on the teeth.

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**Who acts:** Toothpaste, fluoride, little fluoride · **What happens:** have, make, spit out, not rinse, stay · **To what, where:** fluoride, teeth, toothpaste

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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 (Toothpaste, fluoride, little fluoride), 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:2
# text = Toothpaste has fluoride, which makes teeth stronger: spit the toothpaste out, but do not rinse with lots of water, so a little fluoride stays on the teeth.
# 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	Toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fluoride	fluoride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	spit	spit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	rinse	rinse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fluoride	fluoride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Toothpaste | fluoride |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fluoride=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | fluoride | teeth |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tooth=Product |
| 3 | **spit out** | infinitive |  | the toothpaste |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent toothpaste=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **rinse** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | with lots of water | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stay** | present | a little fluoride |  |  | the teeth |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tooth=Location |

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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): 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/).

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