--- title: Each time sugar touches the teeth, acid attacks them for a while, so… — A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport · tree and pragmatics description: Each time sugar touches the teeth, acid attacks them for a while, so sweets drip-fed through training mean many attacks; with a meal in one go is kinder to teeth. Who acts: time sugar, acid, meal. 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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 (time sugar, acid, meal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:054-a-balanced-plate-for-a-kid-who-plays-sport.lesson:13 # text = Each time sugar touches the teeth, acid attacks them for a while, so sweets drip-fed through training mean many attacks; with a meal in one go is kinder to teeth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 054-a-balanced-plate-for-a-kid-who-plays-sport.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 ×1 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 attacks attack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 16 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 drip drip NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 20 through through ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 training train NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 attacks attack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 go go NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 kinder kind ADJ NN Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | present | time sugar | the teeth | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tooth=Co-Theme | | 2 | **attack** | | acid | teeth *= tooth* | | | while | | tree rules | | 3 | **feed** | participle | | sweets *not said here* | | training | | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present · passive | | sweets | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | a meal in one go | | | | | to teeth; kind *property* | tree rules | 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:054-a-balanced-plate-for-a-kid-who-plays-sport.lesson:13`. **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 ×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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