--- title: Mia in Melbourne said she'd washed her hands while holding a sandwic… — «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home · tree and pragmatics description: Mia in Melbourne said she'd washed her hands while holding a sandwich in grey sandpit fingers; Dad said «Yeah nah, mate», which in Australia means «no». Who acts: Mia, Dad, mate. 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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 (Mia, Dad, mate), 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:7 # text = Mia in Melbourne said she'd washed her hands while holding a sandwich in grey sandpit fingers; Dad said «Yeah nah, mate», which in Australia means «no». # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Melbourne Melbourne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 while while SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sandwich sandwich NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 sandpit sandpit NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 23 discourse _ _ 23 nah nah INTJ UH _ 25 discourse _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 31 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 31 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mia in Melbourne | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **wash** | past · perfect | Mia | Mia's hands | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 3 | **hold** | gerund | Mia *not said here* | a sandwich | | grey sandpit fingers | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sandwich=Theme in finger=Location | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | mate | | | | | in Australia | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in australia=Attribute | 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:7`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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