--- title: A boy in Ohio never flossed; food stuck between two teeth for months… — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: boy, hole, brush, dentist. 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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 (boy, hole, brush, dentist), 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:15 # text = 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. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 flossed floss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 8 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 between between ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 21 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 26 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 brush brush NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 obj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 dentist dentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **floss** | past | a boy in Ohio | | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stick** | past · passive | | food | | two teeth | month | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme between tooth=Destination | | 3 | **grow** | past | a hole | | | there | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **reach** | could | the brush | | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | past | the dentist | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **fill** | to-infinitive | the dentist *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent which=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:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/14/) - next →: [Flossing and caring for your teeth, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/)