--- title: Germs and food make plaque, a sticky layer that causes holes in the… — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics description: Germs and food make plaque, a sticky layer that causes holes in the teeth. Who acts: Germs, sticky layer. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Brushing your teeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/) / 5 # Brushing your teeth, sentence 5 Germs and food make plaque, a sticky layer that causes holes in the teeth. **Who acts:** Germs, sticky layer · **What happens:** make, cause · **To what, where:** plaque, holes, teeth 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 (Germs, sticky layer), 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:5 # text = Germs and food make plaque, a sticky layer that causes holes in 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc 3 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 5 plaque plaque NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 causes cause VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Germs and food | plaque | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plaque=Product | | 2 | **cause** | present | a sticky layer | holes | | the teeth | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition hole=Patient | 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:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/4/) - next →: [Brushing your teeth, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/)