--- title: Asking honestly for «five more minutes» often gets you more than a l… — «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home · tree and pragmatics description: Asking honestly for «five more minutes» often gets you more than a lie does. Who acts: Asking. 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/26/) [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/) / 26 # «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home, sentence 26 Asking honestly for «five more minutes» often gets you more than a lie does. **Who acts:** Asking · **What happens:** ask, get · **To what, where:** more, you 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 (Asking), 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:26 # text = Asking honestly for «five more minutes» often gets you more than a lie does. # 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 1 Asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj 2 honestly honestly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 often often ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 obj _ _ 13 than than SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | minute | honestly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get** | present | Asking | more | you | | | often *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary more=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:26`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [«I did brush my teeth»: little lies at…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/427-i-did-brush-my-teeth-little-lies-at-home/24/) - next →: [«I did brush my teeth»: little lies at…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/427-i-did-brush-my-teeth-little-lies-at-home/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/427-i-did-brush-my-teeth-little-lies-at-home/)