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title: «Tamping I am, Owen» — in Wales «tamping» means furious — «back up t… — «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home · tree and pragmatics
description: «Tamping I am, Owen» — in Wales «tamping» means furious — «back up those stairs.» The tablet went off early for the lie. Who acts: Owen, tablet. A sentence of the lesson ««I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home, sentence 1

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«Tamping I am, Owen» — in Wales «tamping» means furious — «back up those stairs.» The tablet went off early for the lie.

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**Who acts:** Owen, tablet · **What happens:** be, tamp, mean, «, go off · **To what, where:** Tamping · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Owen, tablet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:427-i-did-brush-my-teeth-little-lies-at-home.lesson:1
# text = «Tamping I am, Owen» — in Wales «tamping» means furious — «back up those stairs.» The tablet went off early for the lie.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 427-i-did-brush-my-teeth-little-lies-at-home.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
2	Tamping	tamping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	tamping	tamp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	parataxis	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	«	«	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
24	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
28	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Tamping |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tamp** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | Owen |  |  |  |  | furious *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **«** | infinitive | Owen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go off** | past | the tablet |  |  |  |  | for the lie; early *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:1`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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