«I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home, sentence 19

Tricking a check, like wetting a toothbrush, fools a person but not your body: teeth that are not brushed get decay.

Who acts: Tricking · What happens: trick, wet, fool, not brush, get · To what, where: check, toothbrush, person, teeth, decay

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 (Tricking), 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	Tricking	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 fools	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 check	det
3	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tricking	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wetting	punct
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 wetting	mark
6	wetting	wet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Tricking	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 toothbrush	det
8	toothbrush	toothbrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wetting	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fools	punct
10	fools	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 person	det
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fools	obj
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 body	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 body	advmod
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 body	nmod:poss
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 person	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 teeth	punct
18	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 body	conj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 brushed	nsubj:pass
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 brushed	aux:pass
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 brushed	advmod
22	brushed	brush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 teeth	acl:relcl
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fools	parataxis
24	decay	decay	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fools	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	trick	gerund		a check	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent check=Patient
2	wet	gerund		a toothbrush	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent toothbrush=Patient
3	fool	present	Tricking	a person but your body and teeth	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient
4	not brush	present · passive		teeth	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
5	get	infinitive		decay	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer decay=Stimulus

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:19.

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): R6-punct-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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