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title: When a baby tooth comes out and the gap bleeds, biting on clean gauz… — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: When a baby tooth comes out and the gap bleeds, biting on clean gauze (a soft cloth pad) or tissue for a few minutes stops it. Who acts: baby tooth, gap, biting. 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
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# Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 8

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When a baby tooth comes out and the gap bleeds, biting on clean gauze (a soft cloth pad) or tissue for a few minutes stops it.

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**Who acts:** baby tooth, gap, biting · **What happens:** come out, bleed, bite, stop · **To what, where:** clean gauze, tissue

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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 (baby tooth, gap, biting), 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:8
# text = When a baby tooth comes out and the gap bleeds, biting on clean gauze (a soft cloth pad) or tissue for a few minutes stops it.
# 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
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bleeds	bleed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	biting	bite	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	csubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	gauze	gauze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	pad	pad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	tissue	tissue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
28	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **come out** | present | a baby tooth |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bleed** | present | the gap |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **bite** | gerund |  |  |  | clean gauze or tissue |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on gauze=Location |
| 4 | **stop** | present | biting | tissue |  |  | minute |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |

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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:8`.

**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. **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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