--- title: Bacteria in plaque feed on sugar and make acid, which dissolves enam… — Sugar, teeth and the dentist · tree and pragmatics description: Bacteria in plaque feed on sugar and make acid, which dissolves enamel and causes tooth decay, a hole called a cavity. Who acts: Bacteria, acid, hole. 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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 (Bacteria, acid, hole), 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:4 # text = Bacteria in plaque feed on sugar and make acid, which dissolves enamel and causes tooth decay, a hole called a cavity. # 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 Bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 plaque plaque NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 dissolves dissolve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 enamel enamel NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 causes cause VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 decay decay NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 21 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cavity cavity NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 xcomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** | present | Bacteria in plaque | | | | | on sugar | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on sugar=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | Bacteria in plaque *not said here* | acid | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product | | 3 | **dissolve** | present | acid | enamel | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enamel=Patient | | 4 | **cause** | present | acid *not said here* | tooth decay | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition decay=Patient | | 5 | **call** | participle | a hole *not said here* | a cavity | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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/). - ← previous: [Sugar, teeth and the dentist, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist/3/) - next →: [Sugar, teeth and the dentist, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist/)