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title: Braces slowly move teeth with steady pressure over months or years,… — Sugar, teeth and the dentist · tree and pragmatics
description: Braces slowly move teeth with steady pressure over months or years, and an orthodontist usually decides on them around age 12 or older; they are not only for looks, because straighter teeth can bite better and are easier to clean. Who acts: Braces, orthodontist, teeth, straighter teeth. A sentence o
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# Sugar, teeth and the dentist, sentence 11

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Braces slowly move teeth with steady pressure over months or years, and an orthodontist usually decides on them around age 12 or older; they are not only for looks, because straighter teeth can bite better and are easier to clean.

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**Who acts:** Braces, orthodontist, teeth, straighter teeth · **What happens:** move, decide, not be, bite, be, clean · **To what, where:** teeth, age, 12

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sugar, teeth and the dentist» of the medicine 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 (Braces, orthodontist, teeth, straighter teeth), 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:11
# text = Braces slowly move teeth with steady pressure over months or years, and an orthodontist usually decides on them around age 12 or older; they are not only for looks, because straighter teeth can bite better and are easier to clean.
# 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
1	Braces	brace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	orthodontist	orthodontist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:compound
22	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	conj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	straighter	straight	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
36	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
38	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **move** | present | Braces | teeth |  |  | month | with steady pressure; slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme tooth=Result |
| 2 | **decide** | present | a orthodontist | age |  | 12 |  | on teeth *= tooth*; usually *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on they=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | teeth *= tooth* |  |  |  |  | for looks | tree rules |
| 4 | **bite** | can | straighter teeth |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | straighter teeth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **clean** | to-infinitive | straighter teeth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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. **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.

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