Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 29
Taking something from a shop without paying is stealing, even if it is only a chocolate bar.
Who acts: Taking, neighbourhood · What happens: take, pay, steal, be · To what, where: something, shop, chocolate bar
This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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, neighbourhood), 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 | VerbForm=Ger | 9 stealing | csubj |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 shop | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shop | det |
| 5 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obl |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 paying | mark |
| 7 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stealing | advcl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stealing | aux |
| 9 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stealing | punct |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 bar | advmod |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 bar | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bar | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 bar | cop |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 bar | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bar | det |
| 17 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bar | compound |
| 18 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stealing | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stealing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | something | a shop | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent something=Theme from shop=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pay | gerund | Taking not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | steal | present · progressive | Taking | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | neighbourhood | a chocolate bar | 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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:29.
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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