Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, sentence 4
Some cases are hard and people disagree, such as a starving person taking bread; a good answer says taking is wrong but also asks why it happened and what mercy and fairness need.
Who acts: cases, people, starving person, good answer, taking, it · What happens: be, disagree, starve, take, say, ask · To what, where: bread · 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 (cases, people, starving person, good answer), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 cases | det |
| 2 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hard | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | cop |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 disagree | cc |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 disagree | nsubj |
| 7 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 such | punct |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 disagree | ccomp |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 12 | starving | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 person | amod |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 such | nsubj |
| 14 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 person | acl |
| 15 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taking | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 says | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 answer | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 answer | amod |
| 19 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 says | nsubj |
| 20 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | parataxis |
| 21 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 wrong | csubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 wrong | cop |
| 23 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 says | ccomp |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 asks | cc |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 asks | advmod |
| 26 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 says | conj |
| 27 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 happened | advmod |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 happened | nsubj |
| 29 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 asks | advcl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 need | cc |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 need | obj |
| 32 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 need | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 fairness | cc |
| 34 | fairness | fairness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 mercy | conj |
| 35 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 happened | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some cases | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disagree | present | people | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | starve | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | take | gerund | a starving person not said here | bread | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | a good answer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | take | gerund | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | is | present | taking | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | ask speech: ask | present | a good answer not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | need | present | mercy and fairness | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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:religion-ethics:042-finders-keepers-and-what-belongs-to-whom.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): 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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