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title: Tom in Newcastle came down «showered» with dry hair and the same soc… — «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Tom in Newcastle came down «showered» with dry hair and the same socks, and his sister said «Howay man, you smell like a PE bag.» Next time Tom just asked «can I go after this game?», and his mum said yes. Who acts: Tom, sister, you, mum. A sentence of the lesson ««I did brush my teeth»: little lies
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# «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home, sentence 9

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Tom in Newcastle came down «showered» with dry hair and the same socks, and his sister said «Howay man, you smell like a PE bag.» Next time Tom just asked «can I go after this game?», and his mum said yes.

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**Who acts:** Tom, sister, you, mum · **What happens:** come down, shower, say, smell, ask, go · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tom, sister, you, mum), 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:9
# text = Tom in Newcastle came down «showered» with dry hair and the same socks, and his sister said «Howay man, you smell like a PE bag.» Next time Tom just asked «can I go after this game?», and his mum said yes.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Newcastle	Newcastle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	showered	shower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Howay	Howay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	PE	pe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
33	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	just	just	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
38	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
39	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	ccomp	_	_
42	after	after	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
44	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
46	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
52	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	51	ccomp	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 | **come down** | past | Tom in Newcastle |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shower** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with dry hair and the same socks | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tom's sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **smell** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | like a PE bag | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Tom |  |  |  | time |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go** *in a quote* | can | Tom |  |  |  | after this game |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tom's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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