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title: A tooth that hurts with cold or sweet things may have a hole that a… — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: A tooth that hurts with cold or sweet things may have a hole that a dentist needs to fix. Who acts: tooth, dentist, hole. A sentence of the lesson «Flossing and caring for 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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# Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 11

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A tooth that hurts with cold or sweet things may have a hole that a dentist needs to fix.

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**Who acts:** tooth, dentist, hole · **What happens:** hurt, have, need, fix · **To what, where:** hole

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Flossing and caring for 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 (tooth, dentist, hole), 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:11
# text = A tooth that hurts with cold or sweet things may have a hole that a dentist needs to fix.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | present | a tooth |  |  |  |  | with cold things | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | may | a tooth | a hole |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
| 3 | **need** | present | a dentist | a hole |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fix** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a hole *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:074-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth.lesson:11`.

**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): no change. **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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