--- title: A sticky film called plaque, full of bacteria, grows on your teeth e… — Sugar, teeth and the dentist · tree and pragmatics description: A sticky film called plaque, full of bacteria, grows on your teeth every day; when you eat sugar the bacteria feed on it and make acid that dissolves the hard enamel. Who acts: sticky film, you, bacteria, acid. 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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 (sticky film, you, bacteria, acid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:024-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist.lesson:0 # text = A sticky film called plaque, full of bacteria, grows on your teeth every day; when you eat sugar the bacteria feed on it and make acid that dissolves the hard enamel. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 024-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 plaque plaque NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 when when SCONJ WRB _ 20 mark _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl 21 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 29 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 dissolves dissolve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 enamel enamel NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | a sticky film *not said here* | plaque | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **grow** | present | a sticky film | | | your teeth | day | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tooth=Location | | 3 | **eat** | present | you | sugar | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient | | 4 | **feed** | present | the bacteria | | | | | on film | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on it=Patient | | 5 | **make** | infinitive | the bacteria *not said here* | acid | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product | | 6 | **dissolve** | present | acid | the hard enamel | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enamel=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:medicine:024-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Sunshine, vitamin D and water, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/23-sunshine-vitamin-d-and-water/15/) - next →: [Sugar, teeth and the dentist, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist/)