--- title: A keepsake can be very precious even when it is worth little money,… — What people leave behind · tree and pragmatics description: A keepsake can be very precious even when it is worth little money, so you should ask before touching it. Who acts: keepsake, you. A sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [What people leave behind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/) / 15 # What people leave behind, sentence 15 A keepsake can be very precious even when it is worth little money, so you should ask before touching it. **Who acts:** keepsake, you · **What happens:** be, ask, touch · **To what, where:** worth little money, keepsake This is a sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» of the adult life 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 (keepsake, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:15 # text = A keepsake can be very precious even when it is worth little money, so you should ask before touching it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson # annotation = 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 keepsake keepsake NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 even even ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 8 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 19 before before SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | can | a keepsake | | | | | precious *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | keepsake | worth little money | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | should | you | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **touch** | gerund | you *not said here* | keepsake | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:026-what-people-leave-behind.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What people leave behind, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/14/) - next →: [What people leave behind, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/)