--- title: We should brush our teeth twice a day for about two minutes. — Teeth and their care · tree and pragmatics description: We should brush our teeth twice a day for about two minutes. Who acts: We. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth and their care» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/35-teeth-and-care/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Teeth and their care](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/35-teeth-and-care/) / 18 # Teeth and their care, sentence 18 We should brush our teeth twice a day for about two minutes. **Who acts:** We · **What happens:** brush · **To what, where:** teeth This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth and their care» of the world 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 (We), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:035-teeth-and-care.lesson:18 # text = We should brush our teeth twice a day for about two minutes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 035-teeth-and-care.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 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 brush brush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **brush** | should | We | our teeth | | | day; minute | twice *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme | 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:world:035-teeth-and-care.lesson:18`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Teeth and their care, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/35-teeth-and-care/17/) - next →: [Teeth and their care, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/35-teeth-and-care/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/35-teeth-and-care/)