--- title: Fluoride toothpaste is the best defence: it hardens enamel and mends… — Sugar, teeth and the dentist · tree and pragmatics description: Fluoride toothpaste is the best defence: it hardens enamel and mends early damage, which is why you spit after brushing but don't rinse it away. Who acts: Fluoride toothpaste, toothpaste, early damage, you. 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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 (Fluoride toothpaste, toothpaste, early damage, you), 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:3 # text = Fluoride toothpaste is the best defence: it hardens enamel and mends early damage, which is why you spit after brushing but don't rinse it away. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Fluoride fluoride NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 toothpaste toothpaste NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 defence defence NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 hardens harden VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl:relcl 10 enamel enamel NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 mends mend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 damage damage NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 spit spit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 21 after after SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 brushing brush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 advcl _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 rinse rinse VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Fluoride toothpaste | the best defence | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **harden** | present | toothpaste | enamel | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent enamel=Patient | | 3 | **mend** | present | toothpaste *not said here* | early damage | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | early damage | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **spit** | present | you | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **brush** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **rinse away** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | enamel | | | | away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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:3`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist/2/) - next →: [Sugar, teeth and the dentist, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist/)