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title: Sealants and fluoride varnish are quick, painless coatings that help… — The dentist and washing your hands · tree and pragmatics
description: Sealants and fluoride varnish are quick, painless coatings that help protect the back teeth from decay. Who acts: Sealants, quick painless coatings. A sentence of the lesson «The dentist and washing your hands» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The dentist and washing your hands, sentence 8

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Sealants and fluoride varnish are quick, painless coatings that help protect the back teeth from decay.

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**Who acts:** Sealants, quick painless coatings · **What happens:** be, help, protect · **To what, where:** quick painless coatings, back teeth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The dentist and washing your hands» 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 (Sealants, quick painless coatings), 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:8
# text = Sealants and fluoride varnish are quick, painless coatings that help protect the back teeth from decay.
# 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	Sealants	sealant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	fluoride	fluoride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	varnish	varnish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	painless	painless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	coatings	coating	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	decay	decay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Sealants and fluoride varnish | quick painless coatings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present | quick painless coatings |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **protect** | infinitive | quick painless coatings *not said here* | the back teeth |  |  |  | from decay | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Beneficiary from decay=Theme |

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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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**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:8`.

**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/).

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