--- title: Tricking a check, like wetting a toothbrush, fools a person but not… — «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home · tree and pragmatics description: Tricking a check, like wetting a toothbrush, fools a person but not your body: teeth that are not brushed get decay. Who acts: Tricking. 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 pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/427-i-did-brush-my-teeth-little-lies-at-home/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [«I did brush my teeth»: little lies at…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/427-i-did-brush-my-teeth-little-lies-at-home/) / 19 # «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home, sentence 19 Tricking a check, like wetting a toothbrush, fools a person but not your body: teeth that are not brushed get decay. **Who acts:** Tricking · **What happens:** trick, wet, fool, not brush, get · **To what, where:** check, toothbrush, person, teeth, decay 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 (Tricking), 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:19 # text = Tricking a check, like wetting a toothbrush, fools a person but not your body: teeth that are not brushed get decay. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Tricking trick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 check check NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 like like SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 wetting wet VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 toothbrush toothbrush NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 fools fool VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 brushed brush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl:relcl _ _ 23 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 24 decay decay NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trick** | gerund | | a check | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent check=Patient | | 2 | **wet** | gerund | | a toothbrush | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent toothbrush=Patient | | 3 | **fool** | present | Tricking | a person but your body and teeth | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | | 4 | **not** **brush** | present · passive | | teeth | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **get** | infinitive | | decay | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer decay=Stimulus | 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:19`. **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. **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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