Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, sentence 0

Children in the playground often shout "finders keepers, losers weepers", but a lost thing does not stop belonging to its owner just because you found it.

Who acts: Children, lost thing, you · What happens: shout, lose, not stop, belong, find · To what, where: finders keepers, thing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Finders keepers and what belongs to whom» of the religion ethics 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 (Children, lost thing, you), 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shout	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 playground	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 playground	det
4	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Children	nmod
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 shout	advmod
6	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 keepers	punct
8	finders	finder	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keepers	compound
9	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shout	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 losers	punct
11	losers	loser	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 weepers	compound
12	weepers	weeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keepers	conj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 keepers	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stop	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 stop	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 thing	det
17	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stop	nsubj
19	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 stop	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 stop	advmod
21	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 shout	conj
22	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 stop	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 owner	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 owner	nmod:poss
25	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 belonging	obl
26	just	just	ADV	_	29 found	advmod
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 found	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 found	nsubj
29	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 belonging	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 found	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shout	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	Children in the playground	finders keepers and losers weepers	often property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keeper=Topic
2	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not stop	present · do-support	a lost thing			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	belong	gerund	a lost thing not said here		to thing's owner	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	find	past	you	thing		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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:religion-ethics:042-finders-keepers-and-what-belongs-to-whom.lesson:0.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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