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title: Many people feel nervous about the dentist, and dentists can agree a… — Sugar, teeth and the dentist · tree and pragmatics
description: Many people feel nervous about the dentist, and dentists can agree a stop signal, like raising a hand. Who acts: Many people, dentists. A sentence of the lesson «Sugar, teeth and the dentist» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sugar, teeth and the dentist, sentence 15

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Many people feel nervous about the dentist, and dentists can agree a stop signal, like raising a hand.

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**Who acts:** Many people, dentists · **What happens:** feel, agree, raise · **To what, where:** stop signal, hand

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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 (Many people, dentists), 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:15
# text = Many people feel nervous about the dentist, and dentists can agree a stop signal, like raising a hand.
# 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): no change
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	dentists	dentist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **feel** | present | Many people |  |  |  |  | nervous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | can | dentists | a stop signal |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent signal=Topic |
| 3 | **raise** | gerund | dentists *not said here* | a hand |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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:medicine:024-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist.lesson:15`.

**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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