Borrowing without asking, sentence 15
Having less than someone else does not make taking from them fair.
Who acts: Having · What happens: have, not make, take · To what, where: less
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 (Having), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 make | csubj |
| 2 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Having | obj |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 someone | case |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 less | obl |
| 5 | else | else | ADV | _ | 4 someone | advmod |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 make | advmod |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taking | obl |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 make | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | less | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not make | present · do-support | Having | fair property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | from apples = apple | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from they=Initial_Location |
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:15.
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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