--- title: Lying about taking medicine can keep you ill longer; if it tastes aw… — «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home · tree and pragmatics description: Lying about taking medicine can keep you ill longer; if it tastes awful, say so, because there may be another kind. Who acts: Lying, medicine, kind. 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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 (Lying, medicine, kind), 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:22 # text = Lying about taking medicine can keep you ill longer; if it tastes awful, say so, because there may be another kind. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 about about SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 3 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 4 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 ill ill ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 tastes taste VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 14 awful awful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 21 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **take** | gerund | | medicine | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | can | Lying | you | | | | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **taste** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | medicine | | | | | awful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **be** | may | another kind | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:22`. **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. **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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