«I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home, sentence 9
Tom in Newcastle came down «showered» with dry hair and the same socks, and his sister said «Howay man, you smell like a PE bag.» Next time Tom just asked «can I go after this game?», and his mum said yes.
Who acts: Tom, sister, you, mum · What happens: come down, shower, say, smell, ask, go · 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 (Tom, sister, you, mum), 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 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Newcastle | case |
| 3 | Newcastle | Newcastle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tom | nmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 showered | parataxis |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 came | compound:prt |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 showered | punct |
| 7 | showered | shower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 showered | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hair | case |
| 10 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hair | amod |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 showered | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 socks | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 socks | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 socks | amod |
| 15 | socks | sock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hair | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sister | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 showered | conj |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 man | punct |
| 22 | Howay | Howay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 man | compound |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 smell | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 smell | nsubj |
| 26 | smell | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 bag | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bag | det |
| 29 | PE | pe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bag | compound |
| 30 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 smell | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 showered | punct |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 37 asked | punct |
| 33 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 time | amod |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 asked | nsubj |
| 36 | just | just | ADV | _ | 37 asked | advmod |
| 37 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 showered | parataxis |
| 38 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 41 go | punct |
| 39 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 go | aux |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 go | nsubj |
| 41 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 asked | ccomp |
| 42 | after | after | ADP | _ | 44 game | case |
| 43 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 game | det |
| 44 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 go | obl |
| 45 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 showered | punct |
| 46 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 showered | punct |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 said | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 said | cc |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 mum | nmod:poss |
| 50 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 said | nsubj |
| 51 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 showered | conj |
| 52 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 51 said | ccomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | Tom in Newcastle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shower in a quote | participle | with dry hair and the same socks | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Tom's sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | smell in a quote | present | you | like a PE bag | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | Tom | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | go in a quote | can | Tom | after this game | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | Tom's mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:9.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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