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title: Sugary and fizzy drinks cause tooth decay, so water and milk are the… — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: Sugary and fizzy drinks cause tooth decay, so water and milk are the best everyday drinks. Who acts: Sugary drinks, water. 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.
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# Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 7

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Sugary and fizzy drinks cause tooth decay, so water and milk are the best everyday drinks.

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**Who acts:** Sugary drinks, water · **What happens:** cause, be · **To what, where:** tooth decay, best everyday drinks

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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 (Sugary drinks, water), 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:7
# text = Sugary and fizzy drinks cause tooth decay, so water and milk are the best everyday drinks.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Sugary	sugary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	decay	decay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
16	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present | Sugary drinks | tooth decay |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition decay=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | water and milk | the best everyday drinks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:7`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/).

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