Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, sentence 9
Whether the owner is rich or poor does not change whose the thing is.
Who acts: owner, thing · What happens: be, not change
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 (owner, 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 rich | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 owner | det |
| 3 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rich | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rich | cop |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 change | advcl |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 poor | cc |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rich | conj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 change | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 change | advmod |
| 10 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 thing | nmod:poss |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 change | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 change | 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 | the owner | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the owner not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not change | present · do-support | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | present | the thing | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:9.
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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