--- title: A boy in Adelaide gets a front tooth knocked out at football; his co… — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Adelaide gets a front tooth knocked out at football; his coach picks it up by the white top, puts it in a cup of milk and drives him straight to the dentist, who puts it back. Who acts: boy, coach, 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, coach, 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:3 # text = A boy in Adelaide gets a front tooth knocked out at football; his coach picks it up by the white top, puts it in a cup of milk and drives him straight to the dentist, who puts it back. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Adelaide Adelaide PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 knocked knock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 drives drive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 straight straight ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 dentist dentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 back back ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **get** | present | a boy in Adelaide | a front tooth | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Stimulus | | 2 | **knock out** | participle | | a front tooth *not said here* | | | | at football | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at football=Patient | | 3 | **pick up** | present | boy's coach | football | | | | by the white top | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **put** | present | boy's coach *not said here* | football | | a cup of milk | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cup=Destination | | 5 | **drive** | present | a boy in Adelaide *not said here* | coach | | the dentist | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to dentist=Trajectory | | 6 | **put back** | present | the dentist | dentist | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | 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:3`. **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, R8-pos-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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/2/) - next →: [Flossing and caring for your teeth, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/)