--- title: Teeth are brushed gently in small circles with a soft brush, because… — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics description: Teeth are brushed gently in small circles with a soft brush, because hard scrubbing hurts the gums and wears the teeth. Who acts: hard scrubbing. 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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Brushing your teeth, sentence 9 Teeth are brushed gently in small circles with a soft brush, because hard scrubbing hurts the gums and wears the teeth. **Who acts:** hard scrubbing · **What happens:** brush, hurt, wear · **To what, where:** Teeth, small circles, gums 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 (hard scrubbing), 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:9 # text = Teeth are brushed gently in small circles with a soft brush, because hard scrubbing hurts the gums and wears 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 brushed brush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 gently gently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 circles circle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 brush brush NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 15 scrubbing scrub NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 16 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 gums gum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **brush** | present · passive | | Teeth | | small circles | | with a soft brush; gently *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with brush=Theme | | 2 | **hurt** | present | hard scrubbing | the gums | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gum=Patient | | 3 | **wear** | present | hard scrubbing *not said here* | the teeth | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tooth=Source | 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:9`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/8/) - next →: [Brushing your teeth, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/)