--- title: Dentists say to brush your teeth for about 2 minutes, which is 120 s… — Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is · tree and pragmatics description: Dentists say to brush your teeth for about 2 minutes, which is 120 seconds; 30 seconds is only a quarter of that. Who acts: Dentists, 2 minutes, 30 seconds. 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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 (Dentists, 2 minutes, 30 seconds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson:16 # text = Dentists say to brush your teeth for about 2 minutes, which is 120 seconds; 30 seconds is only a quarter of that. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.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 ×2 1 Dentists dentist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 brush brush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 120 120 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 acl:relcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 17 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dentists | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **brush** | to-infinitive | Dentists *not said here* | your teeth | | | minute | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | 2 minutes | 120 seconds | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | 30 seconds | a quarter | | | | of that | 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. 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