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title: A knocked-out grown-up tooth is held by the white top (the crown), n… — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: A knocked-out grown-up tooth is held by the white top (the crown), not the root, kept in milk and taken to a dentist at once. Who acts: white top. 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
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# Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 9

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A knocked-out grown-up tooth is held by the white top (the crown), not the root, kept in milk and taken to a dentist at once.

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**Who acts:** white top · **What happens:** knock out, grow up, hold, keep, take · **To what, where:** knocked grown tooth, milk

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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 (white top), 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:9
# text = A knocked-out grown-up tooth is held by the white top (the crown), not the root, kept in milk and taken to a dentist at once.
# 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): R4-particle ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
2	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=5:compound
8	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	_	28	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **knock out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | present · passive | the white top and the root | a knocked grown tooth |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | participle | the white top and the root *not said here* |  |  | milk |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in milk=Location |
| 5 | **take** | participle | the white top and the root *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a dentist *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to dentist=Result |

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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): R4-particle ×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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