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title: After brushing you spit out the toothpaste but do not rinse straight… — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: After brushing you spit out the toothpaste but do not rinse straight away, so the fluoride keeps protecting the teeth. Who acts: you, fluoride. 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 8

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After brushing you spit out the toothpaste but do not rinse straight away, so the fluoride keeps protecting the teeth.

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**Who acts:** you, fluoride · **What happens:** brush, spit out, not rinse, keep, protect · **To what, where:** toothpaste, teeth

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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 (you, 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:8
# text = After brushing you spit out the toothpaste but do not rinse straight away, so the fluoride keeps protecting 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	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	brushing	brush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spit	spit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	rinse	rinse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fluoride	fluoride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spit out** | present | you | the toothpaste |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent toothpaste=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **rinse** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | present | the fluoride |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **protect** | gerund | the fluoride *not said here* | the teeth |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Beneficiary |

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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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**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:8`.

**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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