--- title: Then the dentist said «Somebody hasn't been brushing» and showed the… — «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home · tree and pragmatics description: Then the dentist said «Somebody hasn't been brushing» and showed the brown bits on his back teeth. Who acts: dentist, Somebody. 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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 (dentist, Somebody), 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:4 # text = Then the dentist said «Somebody hasn't been brushing» and showed the brown bits on his back teeth. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 dentist dentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 « « SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 Somebody somebody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 nsubj _ _ 7 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 9 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 aux _ _ 10 brushing brush VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 20 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the dentist | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **brush** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | Somebody | | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **show** | past | the dentist *not said here* | the brown bits | | dentist's back teeth | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bit=Recipient | 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:4`. **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, 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. 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