--- title: If you cannot say what happened in a chapter, people know you did no… — «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home · tree and pragmatics description: If you cannot say what happened in a chapter, people know you did not read it. Who acts: you, people. 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 of every clause. --- [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/23/) [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/) / 23 # «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home, sentence 23 If you cannot say what happened in a chapter, people know you did not read it. **Who acts:** you, people · **What happens:** not say, happen, know, not read · **To what, where:** chapter · **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 (you, people), 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:23 # text = If you cannot say what happened in a chapter, people know you did not read it. # 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): no change 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ _ 7 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 chapter chapter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **happen** | past | | | | a chapter | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in chapter=Location | | 3 | **know** | present | people | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **read** | past · do-support | you | chapter | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:23`. **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): no change. **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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