--- title: A girl in Wales chewed ice and opened bottles with her teeth; one da… — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: girl, front tooth. 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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 (girl, front tooth), 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:16 # text = 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. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 chewed chew VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 6 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 bottles bottle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 cracked crack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 visits visit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8: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 | **chew** | past | a girl in Wales | ice | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Patient | | 2 | **open** | past | | bottles | | | | with girl's teeth | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient with tooth=Instrument | | 3 | **crack** | past | a front tooth | | | | day | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **need** | past | girl | several visits | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot visit=Theme | | 5 | **fix** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | ice | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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:16`. **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, 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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/15/) - next →: [Flossing and caring for your teeth, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/)