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title: Theo said he'd been «at the dentist», but he had no sticker, no leaf… — Too many details, too few · tree and pragmatics
description: Theo said he'd been «at the dentist», but he had no sticker, no leaflet, no numb mouth. Who acts: Theo. A sentence of the lesson «Too many details, too few» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Too many details, too few, sentence 19

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Theo said he'd been «at the dentist», but he had no sticker, no leaflet, no numb mouth.

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**Who acts:** Theo · **What happens:** say, have · **To what, where:** sticker · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Too many details, too few» 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 (Theo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few.lesson:19
# text = Theo said he'd been «at the dentist», but he had no sticker, no leaflet, no numb mouth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 450-too-many-details-too-few.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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	sticker	sticker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	leaflet	leaflet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
22	numb	numb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Theo |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | Theo | no sticker and no leaflet and no numb mouth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sticker=Patient |

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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:450-too-many-details-too-few.lesson:19`.

**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, R8-pos-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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