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title: Using teeth as tools, such as opening packets or bottles, is a commo… — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: Using teeth as tools, such as opening packets or bottles, is a common way children crack and chip teeth. Who acts: Using, children. 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 claus
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# Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 18

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Using teeth as tools, such as opening packets or bottles, is a common way children crack and chip teeth.

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**Who acts:** Using, children · **What happens:** use, open, be, crack, chip · **To what, where:** teeth, common way

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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 (Using, children), 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:18
# text = Using teeth as tools, such as opening packets or bottles, is a common way children crack and chip teeth.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	packets	packet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	crack	crack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	chip	chip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **use** | gerund |  | teeth |  |  |  | as tools such opening packets or bottles | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tooth=Duration as tool=Attribute |
| 2 | **open** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Using | a common way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **crack** | present | children | teeth |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tooth=Theme |
| 5 | **chip** | present | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: 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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**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): 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.

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