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title: Brushing twice a day with fluoride toothpaste, eating fewer sugary s… — Teeth and their care · tree and pragmatics
description: Brushing twice a day with fluoride toothpaste, eating fewer sugary snacks and visiting the dentist keep teeth healthy. Who acts: Brushing. 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.
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# Teeth and their care, sentence 6

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Brushing twice a day with fluoride toothpaste, eating fewer sugary snacks and visiting the dentist keep teeth healthy.

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**Who acts:** Brushing · **What happens:** brush, eat, visit, keep · **To what, where:** fewer sugary snacks, dentist, teeth

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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 (Brushing), 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:6
# text = Brushing twice a day with fluoride toothpaste, eating fewer sugary snacks and visiting the dentist keep teeth healthy.
# 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	Brushing	brush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	csubj	_	_
2	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fluoride	fluoride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
10	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
11	sugary	sugary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	snacks	snack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
16	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with fluoride toothpaste; twice *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with toothpaste=Instrument |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  | fewer sugary snacks |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Patient |
| 3 | **visit** | gerund |  | the dentist |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dentist=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | present | Brushing | teeth |  |  |  | healthy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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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**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:6`.

**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/).

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