--- title: The hamster was fine after food, but Dad was properly angry: «You ca… — «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home · tree and pragmatics description: The hamster was fine after food, but Dad was properly angry: «You can lie about your teeth, but not about an animal that can't tell me.» Liam in Texas said he took his cough medicine, but Grandma checked the line on the bottle. Who acts: hamster, Dad, You, animal. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hamster, Dad, You, animal), 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:12 # text = The hamster was fine after food, but Dad was properly angry: «You can lie about your teeth, but not about an animal that can't tell me.» Liam in Texas said he took his cough medicine, but Grandma checked the line on the bottle. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 after after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 properly properly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 13 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 15 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 18 about about ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 28 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 34 Liam Liam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 cough cough NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 but but CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 Grandma Grandma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=46:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 46 checked check VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 on on ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the hamster | | | | after food | fine *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | Dad | | | | | angry, properly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **lie** *in a quote* | can | You | | | | | about your teeth | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about tooth=Location | | 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | a animal | | Liam in Texas *= liam* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Liam in Texas | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **take** | past | Liam | Liam's cough medicine | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme | | 7 | **check** | past | Grandma | the line | | the bottle | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme | | 8 | **medicine** | | Liam | | | | | | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=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](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:12`. **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 ×1, 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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