Borrowing without asking, sentence 14
Taking something without asking is taking, even if you mean to give it back.
Who acts: Taking, you · What happens: take, ask, mean, give back · To what, where: something, bag
This is a sentence of the lesson «Borrowing without asking» 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 (Taking, you), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 taking | csubj |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 4 asking | mark |
| 4 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 taking | advcl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 taking | aux |
| 6 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mean | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 mean | advmod |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 mean | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 11 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 taking | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 give | mark |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 mean | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | obj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 give | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | something | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Taking not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | present · progressive | Taking | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mean a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | give back not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | bag | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:339-borrowing-without-asking.lesson:14.
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): no change. 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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