Taking without paying: the consequences, sentence 4
Shoplifting means taking things from a shop without paying; it is stealing.
Who acts: Shoplifting · What happens: mean, take, pay, steal · To what, where: things, shop
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 (Shoplifting), 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 | Shoplifting | shoplifting | NOUN | _ | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 taking | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 shop | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shop | det |
| 7 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taking | obl |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 paying | mark |
| 9 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 taking | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 stealing | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stealing | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stealing | aux |
| 13 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 means | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Shoplifting | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | gerund | Shoplifting not said here | things | a shop | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from shop=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | pay | gerund | Shoplifting not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | steal | present · progressive | shoplifting | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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:money:015-taking-without-paying-the-consequences.lesson:4.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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