--- title: Flossing and caring for your teeth — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Flossing and caring for your teeth», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A toothbrush cleans the fronts, backs and tops of the teeth, but it cannot reach the narrow gaps between them, so once a day we clean --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/) [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/) / Flossing and caring for your teeth # Flossing and caring for your teeth Lesson 74 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/0/) — A toothbrush cleans the fronts, backs and tops of the teeth, but it cannot reach the narrow gaps between them, so once a day we clean there with floss or a small brush made for the gaps. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/1/) — Teeth are strong but not made for everything: opening packets, chewing pencils or crunching ice can chip or crack them, and fizzy or sugary drinks every day cause decay. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/2/) — When something goes wrong, act calmly: a bleeding gap from a baby tooth stops with gentle pressure, but a knocked-out grown-up tooth needs a dentist at once. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/3/) — A boy in Adelaide gets a front tooth knocked out at football; his coach picks it up by the white top, puts it in a cup of milk and drives him straight to the dentist, who puts it back. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/4/) — A toothbrush cannot reach between the teeth, so floss or an interdental brush is used once a day. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/5/) — Floss is slid gently between the teeth and curved around each tooth, because snapping it down hurts the gums. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/6/) — Sharp things like forks and pins cut the gums and can chip teeth, so they are never used to pick the teeth. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/7/) — Sugary and fizzy drinks cause tooth decay, so water and milk are the best everyday drinks. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/8/) — When a baby tooth comes out and the gap bleeds, biting on clean gauze (a soft cloth pad) or tissue for a few minutes stops it. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/9/) — A knocked-out grown-up tooth is held by the white top (the crown), not the root, kept in milk and taken to a dentist at once. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/10/) — A grown-up tooth can sometimes be saved if it is put back quickly. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/11/) — A tooth that hurts with cold or sweet things may have a hole that a dentist needs to fix. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/12/) — Opening packets with your teeth and chewing pencils or ice can crack teeth. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/13/) — Swallowed chewing gum is not digested, but it passes through the body in a few days; it does not stay for seven years. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/14/) — Breath smells in the morning because germs grow in the mouth overnight when there is less spit. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/15/) — A boy in Ohio never flossed; food stuck between two teeth for months, and a hole grew there where the brush could not reach, which the dentist had to fill. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/16/) — A girl in Wales chewed ice and opened bottles with her teeth; one day a front tooth cracked, and she needed several visits to fix it. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/17/) — About a third of each tooth's surface is between the teeth, where a brush cannot reach without floss. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/18/) — Using teeth as tools, such as opening packets or bottles, is a common way children crack and chip teeth. - ← previous: [Brushing your teeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/) - next →: [The dentist and washing your hands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)