Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, sentence 8
If a found thing has a name or address, the right thing is to return it whole, with nothing taken out.
Who acts: found thing, right thing · What happens: find, have, be, take out · To what, where: name
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 (found thing, right thing), 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 | _ | 5 has | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 return | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 address | cc |
| 9 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 name | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 return | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thing | amod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 return | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 return | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 return | mark |
| 16 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 return | obj |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 return | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 nothing | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 nothing | case |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 return | obl |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 nothing | acl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 taken | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 return | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | participle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | a found thing | a name or address | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the right thing | with nothing; return, whole property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take out | participle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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:8.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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