The library and books, sentence 1

If you lose or damage a library book, you tell the librarian honestly; you may have to pay for it, but hiding it is worse.

Who acts: you, hiding · What happens: lose, damage, tell, have, pay, hide · To what, where: library book, librarian, book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The library and books» 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 (you, hiding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 lose	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
3	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	advcl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 damage	cc
5	damage	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 book	det
7	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 book	compound
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lose	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 librarian	det
13	librarian	librarian	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj
14	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	11 tell	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tell	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 pay	mark
20	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 have	xcomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pay	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 worse	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 worse	cc
25	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 worse	csubj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hiding	obj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 worse	cop
28	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 have	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a library book		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Eventuality
2	damage	present	you not said here			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	present	you	the librarian	honestly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent librarian=Recipient
4	have	may	you			tree rules
5	pay	to-infinitive	you not said here		for book	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
6	hide	gerund		book		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	is	present	hiding		bad property	tree rules

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, 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:259-library-and-books.lesson:1.

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, 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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