--- title: Brush gently in small circles with a soft brush for about two minute… — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics description: Brush gently in small circles with a soft brush for about two minutes, and do the tongue too; a toothbrush is personal and is never shared. Who acts: you, toothbrush. 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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 (you, toothbrush), 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:3 # text = Brush gently in small circles with a soft brush for about two minutes, and do the tongue too; a toothbrush is personal and is never shared. # 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 Brush brush VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 gently gently ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 circles circle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 brush brush NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 too too ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 toothbrush toothbrush NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 personal personal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 27 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **brush** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | small circles | minute | with a soft brush; gently *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in circle=Destination | | 2 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the tongue | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | present | a toothbrush | | | | | personal *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **share** | present · passive | a toothbrush *not said here* | | | | | | 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:3`. **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/). - ← previous: [Brushing your teeth, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/2/) - next →: [Brushing your teeth, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/)