«I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home, sentence 12

The hamster was fine after food, but Dad was properly angry: «You can lie about your teeth, but not about an animal that can't tell me.» Liam in Texas said he took his cough medicine, but Grandma checked the line on the bottle.

Who acts: hamster, Dad, You, animal, Liam, Grandma · What happens: be, lie, not tell, say, take, check · To what, where: Liam, cough medicine, line, bottle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson ««I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home» of the everyday 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 (hamster, Dad, You, animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hamster	det
2	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 food	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 angry	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 angry	cc
9	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 angry	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 angry	cop
11	properly	properly	ADV	_	12 angry	advmod
12	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fine	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 lie	punct
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 lie	punct
15	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 lie	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 lie	aux
17	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 angry	parataxis
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 teeth	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 teeth	nmod:poss
20	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lie	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 animal	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 animal	cc
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 animal	advmod
24	about	about	ADP	_	26 animal	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 animal	det
26	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	appos
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 tell	nsubj
28	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 tell	aux
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 tell	advmod
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 animal	acl:relcl
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 tell	iobj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
34	Liam	Liam	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 said	nsubj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 Texas	case
36	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Liam	nmod
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	parataxis
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 took	nsubj
39	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 said	ccomp
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 medicine	nmod:poss
41	cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 medicine	compound
42	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 took	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 checked	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 checked	cc
45	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 checked	nsubj
46	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	parataxis
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 line	det
48	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 checked	obj
49	on	on	ADP	_	51 bottle	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 bottle	det
51	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 checked	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hamster				after food	fine property	tree rules
2	is	past	Dad					angry, properly property	tree rules
3	lie in a quote	can	You					about your teeth	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about tooth=Location
4	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	a animal		Liam in Texas = liam				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	past	Liam in Texas						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	take	past	Liam	Liam's cough medicine					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme
7	check	past	Grandma	the line		the bottle			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme
8	medicine		Liam						nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=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, 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:everyday:427-i-did-brush-my-teeth-little-lies-at-home.lesson:12.

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 ×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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