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title: Sharp things like forks and pins cut the gums and can chip teeth, so… — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: Sharp things like forks and pins cut the gums and can chip teeth, so they are never used to pick the teeth. Who acts: Sharp things. 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 6

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Sharp things like forks and pins cut the gums and can chip teeth, so they are never used to pick the teeth.

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**Who acts:** Sharp things · **What happens:** cut, chip, not use, pick · **To what, where:** gums, teeth

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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 (Sharp things), 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:6
# text = Sharp things like forks and pins cut the gums and can chip teeth, so they are never used to pick the 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	forks	fork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gums	gum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	chip	chip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **cut** | present | Sharp things like forks and pins | the gums |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gum=Product |
| 2 | **chip** | can | Sharp things like forks and pins *not said here* | teeth |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **use** | present · passive |  | teeth *= tooth* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **pick** | to-infinitive |  | the teeth |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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