---
title: Picking flowers from someone's garden needs their permission first. — Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling · tree and pragmatics
description: Picking flowers from someone's garden needs their permission first. Who acts: Picking, hands. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Neighbours, deliveries, heating and co…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/) / 10

# Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling, sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Picking flowers from someone's garden needs their permission first.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Picking, hands · **What happens:** pick, need, permit · **To what, where:** flowers, garden, permission

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» of the everyday 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 (Picking, hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.lesson:10
# text = Picking flowers from someone's garden needs their permission first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	_
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod
7	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | gerund |  | flowers |  | someone's garden |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent flower=Theme from garden=Source |
| 2 | **need** | present | Picking | hands's permission |  |  |  | first *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot permission=Theme |
| 3 | **permit** |  | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  |  | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.lesson:10`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Neighbours, deliveries, heating and co…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/9/)
- next →: [Neighbours, deliveries, heating and co…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/11/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/)