Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 19
"Finders keepers" is not true for things like phones; keeping something you could return is a kind of stealing, and lost property offices exist to return things.
Who acts: Finders keepers, you, keeping, lost property offices · What happens: not be, keep, return, be, lose, exist · To what, where: something, kind, things
This is a sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» of the reflection 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 (Finders keepers, you, keeping, lost property offices), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 keepers | punct |
| 2 | Finders | finder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keepers | compound |
| 3 | keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 true | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 keepers | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 true | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 true | advmod |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 true | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 phones | case |
| 11 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 things | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 keeping | punct |
| 13 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 kind | csubj |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 keeping | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 return | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 return | aux |
| 17 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 something | acl:relcl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 kind | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 kind | det |
| 20 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 true | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 stealing | case |
| 22 | stealing | stealing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kind | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 exist | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 exist | cc |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 offices | amod |
| 26 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 offices | compound |
| 27 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 exist | nsubj |
| 28 | exist | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 kind | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 return | mark |
| 30 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 exist | advcl |
| 31 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 return | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 true | 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 | not is | present | Finders keepers | for things like phones; true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | something | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | |||||
| 3 | return | could | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | keeping | a kind | of stealing | tree rules | |||
| 5 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | exist | present | lost property offices | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | return | to-infinitive | lost property offices not said here | things | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:19.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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