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title: Little lies at home are about easy jobs — hands, teeth, showers, tid… — «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Little lies at home are about easy jobs — hands, teeth, showers, tidying, reading — and they are usually caught by something small. Who acts: Little lies, something. 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 depend
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# «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home, sentence 6

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Little lies at home are about easy jobs — hands, teeth, showers, tidying, reading — and they are usually caught by something small.

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**Who acts:** Little lies, something · **What happens:** be, read, catch · **To what, where:** teeth

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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 (Little lies, something), 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:6
# text = Little lies at home are about easy jobs — hands, teeth, showers, tidying, reading — and they are usually caught by something small.
# 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	tidying	tidy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obl:agent	_	_
27	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Little lies at home |  |  |  |  | about easy jobs | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | gerund | Little lies at home *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **catch** | present · passive | something | teeth *= tooth* |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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.

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**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:6`.

**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 ×4, 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/).

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