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title: How often you eat sugar matters most for teeth, because each sugary… — Sugar, teeth and the dentist · tree and pragmatics
description: How often you eat sugar matters most for teeth, because each sugary snack starts an acid attack of about an hour. Who acts: you, sugary snack. 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 
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# Sugar, teeth and the dentist, sentence 5

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How often you eat sugar matters most for teeth, because each sugary snack starts an acid attack of about an hour.

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**Who acts:** you, sugary snack · **What happens:** eat, matter, start, attack · **To what, where:** sugar, acid attack, hour

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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 (you, sugary snack), 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:5
# text = How often you eat sugar matters most for teeth, because each sugary snack starts an acid attack of about an hour.
# 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
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	csubj	_	_
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	sugary	sugary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	acid	acid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | you | sugar |  |  |  | often *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |
| 2 | **matter** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for teeth | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **start** | present | each sugary snack | a acid attack of a hour |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Eventuality |
| 4 | **attack** |  |  | a hour |  |  |  |  | nom attack «act transitive»: of=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): R7-rel-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/).

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