Borrowing without asking, sentence 17
Coins thrown into a wishing fountain are usually collected for charity, so they still belong to someone.
Who acts: Coins · What happens: throw, collect, belong · To what, where: Coins, wishing fountain
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 (Coins), 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 | Coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Coins | acl |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 fountain | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fountain | det |
| 5 | wishing | wishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fountain | compound |
| 6 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thrown | obl |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 collected | aux:pass |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 collected | advmod |
| 9 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 charity | case |
| 11 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 collected | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 belong | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 belong | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 belong | nsubj |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 belong | advmod |
| 16 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 collected | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 someone | case |
| 18 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 belong | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | participle | Coins not said here | into a wishing fountain result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into fountain=Result | ||||
| 2 | collect | present · passive | Coins | for charity; usually property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | belong | present | Coins = coin | still | to someone | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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:17.
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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