--- title: A dentist can find a small cavity before it hurts and fill it quickl… — The dentist and washing your hands · tree and pragmatics description: A dentist can find a small cavity before it hurts and fill it quickly; left alone, it grows and needs much bigger treatment. Who acts: dentist. 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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), 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:19 # text = A dentist can find a small cavity before it hurts and fill it quickly; left alone, it grows and needs much bigger 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dentist dentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 cavity cavity NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 before before SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 advcl _ _ 17 alone alone ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 much much ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 25 treatment treatment NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 . . 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 | **find** | can | a dentist | a small cavity | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cavity=Topic | | 2 | **hurt** | present | dentist | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **fill** | infinitive | a dentist *not said here* | dentist | | | | quickly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **leave** | participle | dentist *not said here* | | | | | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | present | dentist | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **need** | present | dentist *not said here* | bigger 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:19`. **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): no change. **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, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/18/) - next →: [Washing your body and caring for your…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/)