--- title: Feeling nervous is normal; you can tell the dentist, ask what they w… — The dentist and washing your hands · tree and pragmatics description: Feeling nervous is normal; you can tell the dentist, ask what they will do, and agree a signal, like raising your hand, for them to stop. Who acts: Feeling, you, teeth, signal. 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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 (Feeling, you, teeth, signal), 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:1 # text = Feeling nervous is normal; you can tell the dentist, ask what they will do, and agree a signal, like raising your hand, for them to stop. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Feeling feel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dentist dentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 obj _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 agree agree VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 like like SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 24 raising raise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 acl _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 for for SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | gerund | | | | | | nervous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | Feeling | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | you | the dentist | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dentist=Recipient | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **do** | future | teeth *= tooth* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 6 | **agree** *speech: agree* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a signal | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent signal=Topic | | 7 | **raise** | gerund | a signal *not said here* | your hand | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 8 | **stop** | to-infinitive | teeth *= tooth* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:1`. **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/). - ← previous: [The dentist and washing your hands, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/0/) - next →: [The dentist and washing your hands, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/)