--- title: Floss is slid gently between the teeth and curved around each tooth,… — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics description: Floss is slid gently between the teeth and curved around each tooth, because snapping it down hurts the gums. Who acts: snapping. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Flossing and caring for your teeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/) / 5 # Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 5 Floss is slid gently between the teeth and curved around each tooth, because snapping it down hurts the gums. **Who acts:** snapping · **What happens:** slid, curve, snap down, hurt · **To what, where:** Floss, tooth, toothbrush, gums 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 (snapping), 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:5 # text = Floss is slid gently between the teeth and curved around each tooth, because snapping it down hurts the gums. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Floss floss NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 slid slid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 gently gently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 between between ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 curved curve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 around around ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 snapping snap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 down down ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 18 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 gums gum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slid** | present · passive | | Floss | | | | between the teeth; gently *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **curve** | participle | | | | each tooth | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 3 | **snap down** | gerund | | toothbrush | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 4 | **hurt** | present | snapping | the gums | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gum=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:5`. **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, 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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/4/) - next →: [Flossing and caring for your teeth, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/)