«I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home, sentence 4
Then the dentist said «Somebody hasn't been brushing» and showed the brown bits on his back teeth.
Who acts: dentist, Somebody · What happens: say, not brush, show · To what, where: brown bits, back teeth · 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 (dentist, Somebody), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dentist | det |
| 3 | dentist | dentist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | « | « | SCONJ | _ | 10 brushing | mark |
| 6 | Somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 brushing | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 brushing | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 brushing | advmod |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 brushing | aux |
| 10 | brushing | brush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 brushing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 showed | cc |
| 13 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bits | det |
| 15 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bits | amod |
| 16 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 showed | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 teeth | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 19 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 teeth | compound |
| 20 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 showed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the dentist | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not brush in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | Somebody | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | show | past | the dentist not said here | the brown bits | dentist's back teeth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bit=Recipient |
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:4.
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, R7-rel-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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