Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet, sentence 17

Taking from someone who can't notice, like a little child, is still taking, and many think it's worse because they trust you.

Who acts: Taking, many, much, ups · What happens: take, not notice, think, be, trust · To what, where: someone, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet» 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 (Taking, many, much, ups), 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	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 taking	csubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 someone	case
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Taking	obl
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 notice	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 notice	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 notice	advmod
7	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 someone	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 child	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 child	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 child	amod
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 notice	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Taking	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 taking	aux
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 taking	advmod
16	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 think	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 think	cc
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 think	nsubj
20	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 taking	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 worse	nsubj
22	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 worse	cop
23	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 think	ccomp
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 trust	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 trust	nsubj
26	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 worse	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 trust	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 taking	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund			someone			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from someone=Initial_Location
2	not notice	can					like a little child	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	take	present · progressive	Taking			still		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	present	many					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	much				bad property	tree rules
6	trust	present	ups = up	you				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:095-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet.lesson:17.

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 ×2, 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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