--- title: Teeth are strong but not made for everything: opening packets, chewi… — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Teeth, fizzy drinks. 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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 (Teeth, fizzy drinks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:074-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth.lesson:1 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 074-flossing-and-caring-for-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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 6 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 opening open VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 packets packet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 chewing chew VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 14 pencils pencil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 crunching crunch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 17 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 chip chip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 crack crack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 fizzy fizzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 sugary sugary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:amod 28 drinks drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 29 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 cause cause VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 32 decay decay NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 . . 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 | **is** | present | Teeth | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **make** | participle | Teeth *not said here* | | | | | for everything | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for everything=Asset | | 3 | **open** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **chew** | gerund | Teeth *not said here* | pencils | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Patient | | 5 | **crunch** | gerund | Teeth *not said here* | ice | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Patient | | 6 | **chip** | can | Teeth *not said here* | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **crack** | infinitive | Teeth *not said here* | teeth *= tooth* | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | | 8 | **cause** | present | fizzy drinks | decay | | | day | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition decay=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:074-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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: [Flossing and caring for your teeth, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/0/) - next →: [Flossing and caring for your teeth, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/)