--- title: If the attacks win, a hole, a cavity, eats into the tooth, and the d… — Sugar, teeth and the dentist · tree and pragmatics description: If the attacks win, a hole, a cavity, eats into the tooth, and the dentist has to clean it out and fill it before it reaches the nerve. Who acts: attacks, hole, 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 (attacks, hole, dentist), 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:2 # text = If the attacks win, a hole, a cavity, eats into the tooth, and the dentist has to clean it out and fill it before it reaches the nerve. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 attacks attack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 win win VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cavity cavity NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 dentist dentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 before before SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the attacks | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **eat** | present | a hole | | | the tooth | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | present | the dentist | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **clean out** | to-infinitive | the dentist *not said here* | dentist | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **fill** | infinitive | the dentist *not said here* | dentist | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **reach** | present | hole | the nerve | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent nerve=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:medicine:024-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist.lesson:2`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×1. **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: [Sugar, teeth and the dentist, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist/0/) - next →: [Sugar, teeth and the dentist, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist/)