Taking without paying: the consequences, sentence 12
A grown-up who asks a child to carry stolen things is using the child, and the child can get into serious trouble; say no and tell a trusted adult.
Who acts: up, child · What happens: grow up, ask, carry, steal, use, get · To what, where: child, stolen things, serious trouble, trusted adult · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking without paying: the consequences» of the money 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 (up, child), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 up | det |
| 2 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 using | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 up | punct |
| 4 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grown | compound:prt |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 asks | nsubj |
| 6 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 up | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asks | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 carry | mark |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 asks | xcomp |
| 11 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carry | obj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 using | aux |
| 14 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 using | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 get | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 using | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 trouble | case |
| 24 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 trouble | amod |
| 25 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 say | punct |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 using | parataxis |
| 28 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 say | discourse |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 tell | cc |
| 30 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 say | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 adult | det |
| 32 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 adult | amod |
| 33 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tell | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 using | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | a up | a child | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | carry not said to happen | to-infinitive | a up not said here | stolen things | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | use | present · progressive | the child | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | |||||
| 6 | get | can | the child | serious trouble | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a trusted adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | |||||
| 9 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:money:015-taking-without-paying-the-consequences.lesson:12.
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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-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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