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title: For a filling the dentist numbs the tooth with a local anaesthetic i… — Sugar, teeth and the dentist · tree and pragmatics
description: For a filling the dentist numbs the tooth with a local anaesthetic injection, and the lip can stay numb for a few hours, so you mustn't chew it or eat hot food until feeling returns. Who acts: dentist, lip, you, feeling. A sentence of the lesson «Sugar, teeth and the dentist» of the medicine course 
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# Sugar, teeth and the dentist, sentence 6

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For a filling the dentist numbs the tooth with a local anaesthetic injection, and the lip can stay numb for a few hours, so you mustn't chew it or eat hot food until feeling returns.

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**Who acts:** dentist, lip, you, feeling · **What happens:** numb, stay, not chew, eat, return · **To what, where:** filling, lip, hot food

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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 (dentist, lip, you, feeling), 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:6
# text = For a filling the dentist numbs the tooth with a local anaesthetic injection, and the lip can stay numb for a few hours, so you mustn't chew it or eat hot food until feeling returns.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
3	filling	fill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl
6	numbs	numb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	anaesthetic	anaesthetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	injection	injection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
20	numb	numb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	chew	chew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
34	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	returns	return	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **numb** | present | the dentist | a filling |  |  |  | with a local anaesthetic injection | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tooth=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stay** | can | the lip |  |  |  |  | numb *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **chew** | must | you | lip |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **eat** | infinitive | you *not said here* | hot food |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 5 | **return** | present | feeling |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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): R5-strong ×2, 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.

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