Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, sentence 15
If you think a friend has stolen something, you have a duty to act, starting by talking to them or a trusted adult.
Who acts: you, friend · What happens: think, steal, have, act, start, talk · To what, where: something, duty, makers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, friend), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 think | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stolen | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stolen | aux |
| 7 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 think | ccomp |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 stolen | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 duty | det |
| 13 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 act | mark |
| 15 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 duty | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 starting | punct |
| 17 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 act | advcl |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 talking | mark |
| 19 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 starting | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 talking | obl |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 adult | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 adult | det |
| 24 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 adult | amod |
| 25 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 them | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | steal | present · perfect | a friend | something | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location something=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | you | a duty | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Patient | ||||
| 4 | act | to-infinitive | you not said here | a duty not said here | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | start | gerund | you not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | talk | gerund | you not said here | makers = maker | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | 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:religion-ethics:042-finders-keepers-and-what-belongs-to-whom.lesson:15.
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. 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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