--- title: A dentist is a doctor for teeth: they look for holes, clean the teet… — The dentist and washing your hands · tree and pragmatics description: A dentist is a doctor for teeth: they look for holes, clean the teeth, and fix small problems before they become big and painful ones. Who acts: dentist, teeth. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dentist, teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:075-the-dentist-and-washing-hands.lesson:0 # text = A dentist is a doctor for teeth: they look for holes, clean the teeth, and fix small problems before they become big and painful ones. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 075-the-dentist-and-washing-hands.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dentist dentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 14 clean clean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 fix fix VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 problems problem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 before before SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 25 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 painful painful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 xcomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a dentist | a doctor | | | | for teeth | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | present | teeth *= tooth* | | | | | for holes | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for hole=Theme | | 3 | **clean** | present | teeth *= tooth* *not said here* | the teeth | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 4 | **fix** | present | teeth *= tooth* *not said here* | small problems | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent problem=Patient | | 5 | **become** | present | teeth *= tooth* | big ones | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:075-the-dentist-and-washing-hands.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/18/) - next →: [The dentist and washing your hands, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/)