--- title: But germs in the mouth eat sugar left on the teeth and make acid, an… — Teeth and their care · tree and pragmatics description: But germs in the mouth eat sugar left on the teeth and make acid, and the acid makes holes called cavities. Who acts: germs, acid, holes. 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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Teeth and their care, sentence 5 But germs in the mouth eat sugar left on the teeth and make acid, and the acid makes holes called cavities. **Who acts:** germs, acid, holes · **What happens:** eat, leave, make, call · **To what, where:** sugar, teeth, acid, holes, cavities · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (germs, acid, holes), 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:5 # text = But germs in the mouth eat sugar left on the teeth and make acid, and the acid makes holes called cavities. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 20 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 cavities cavity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 xcomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | germs in the mouth | sugar | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient | | 2 | **leave** | participle | | sugar *not said here* | | the teeth | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on tooth=Location | | 3 | **make** | present | germs in the mouth *not said here* | acid | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product | | 4 | **make** | present | the acid | holes | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | | 5 | **call** | participle | holes *not said here* | cavities | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/35-teeth-and-care/4/) - next →: [Teeth and their care, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/35-teeth-and-care/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/35-teeth-and-care/)