--- title: A boy in Leeds skipped his dentist check-ups for two years; a small… — The dentist and washing your hands · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Leeds skipped his dentist check-ups for two years; a small hole the dentist would have found early grew so big that the tooth needed a root treatment. Who acts: boy, dentist, small hole, tooth. 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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 (boy, dentist, small hole, tooth), 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:16 # text = A boy in Leeds skipped his dentist check-ups for two years; a small hole the dentist would have found early grew so big that the tooth needed a root treatment. # 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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 skipped skip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 7 dentist dentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 8 check check NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 10 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 dentist dentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux _ _ 22 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl:relcl _ _ 23 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 24 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 treatment treatment NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 . . 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 | **skip** | past | a boy in Leeds | boy's dentist check ups | | | year | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Agent | | 2 | **find** | would · perfect | the dentist | a small hole *not said here* | | | | early *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Topic | | 3 | **grow** | past | a small hole | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **need** | past | the tooth | a root treatment | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treatment=Theme | 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:16`. **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, R5-strong ×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: [The dentist and washing your hands, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/15/) - next →: [The dentist and washing your hands, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/)