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title: Baby teeth can get holes too; a rotten baby tooth hurts, can get inf… — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: Baby teeth can get holes too; a rotten baby tooth hurts, can get infected and can harm the grown-up tooth growing under it. Who acts: Baby teeth, rotten baby tooth, grown tooth. A sentence of the lesson «Brushing your teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Brushing your teeth, sentence 20

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Baby teeth can get holes too; a rotten baby tooth hurts, can get infected and can harm the grown-up tooth growing under it.

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**Who acts:** Baby teeth, rotten baby tooth, grown tooth · **What happens:** get, hurt, harm, grow up, grow · **To what, where:** holes, grown tooth, loss

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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 (Baby teeth, rotten baby tooth, grown tooth), 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:20
# text = Baby teeth can get holes too; a rotten baby tooth hurts, can get infected and can harm the grown-up tooth growing under it.
# 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Baby	baby	NOUN	NN	_	2	compound	_	_
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	infected	infected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=21:compound
24	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
25	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **get** | can | Baby teeth | holes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hole=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hurt** | present | a rotten baby tooth |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **get** | can | Baby teeth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **harm** | can | Baby teeth *not said here* | the grown tooth |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tooth=Experiencer |
| 5 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **grow** | gerund | the grown tooth *not said here* |  |  | loss |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under it=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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×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.

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