«I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home, sentence 22
Lying about taking medicine can keep you ill longer; if it tastes awful, say so, because there may be another kind.
Who acts: Lying, medicine, kind · What happens: lie, take, keep, taste, say, be · To what, where: medicine, you · 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 (Lying, medicine, kind), 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 | Lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 keep | csubj |
| 2 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 3 taking | mark |
| 3 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Lying | advcl |
| 4 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taking | obj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 keep | aux |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 keep | obj |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADV | _ | 9 longer | advmod |
| 9 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 keep | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 tastes | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 tastes | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tastes | nsubj |
| 13 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 say | advcl |
| 14 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tastes | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 say | punct |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 keep | parataxis |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 say | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 be | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 be | mark |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 be | expl |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 be | aux |
| 22 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 say | advcl |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 kind | det |
| 24 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 be | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | take | gerund | medicine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep | can | Lying | you | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 4 | taste a condition, not said to happen | present | medicine | awful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | be | may | another kind | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:22.
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.
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