«I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home, sentence 7
Mia in Melbourne said she'd washed her hands while holding a sandwich in grey sandpit fingers; Dad said «Yeah nah, mate», which in Australia means «no».
Who acts: Mia, Dad, mate · What happens: say, wash, hold, mean · To what, where: hands, sandwich, grey sandpit fingers · 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 (Mia, Dad, mate), 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 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Melbourne | case |
| 3 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mia | nmod |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 washed | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 washed | aux |
| 7 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hands | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 washed | obj |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 holding | mark |
| 11 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 washed | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sandwich | det |
| 13 | sandwich | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 holding | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fingers | case |
| 15 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fingers | amod |
| 16 | sandpit | sandpit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fingers | compound |
| 17 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 holding | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 nah | punct |
| 22 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 23 nah | discourse |
| 23 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 25 mate | discourse |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 nah | punct |
| 25 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | parataxis |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 mate | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 means | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 means | nsubj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Australia | case |
| 30 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 means | obl |
| 31 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 mate | acl:relcl |
| 32 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 33 no | punct |
| 33 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 31 means | ccomp |
| 34 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 33 no | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mia in Melbourne | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wash | past · perfect | Mia | Mia's hands | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | Mia not said here | a sandwich | grey sandpit fingers | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sandwich=Theme in finger=Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | mate | in Australia | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in australia=Attribute |
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:7.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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