--- title: Always ask «May I borrow…?» and wait for a yes, even for a ruler or… — Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing… · tree and pragmatics description: Always ask «May I borrow…?» and wait for a yes, even for a ruler or a rubber, because the thing is not yours. Who acts: you, I, thing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:225-public-transport-and-borrowing.lesson:16 # text = Always ask «May I borrow…?» and wait for a yes, even for a ruler or a rubber, because the thing is not yours. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 225-public-transport-and-borrowing.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Always always ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 4 May may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 borrow borrow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 … … PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 14 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 19 discourse _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 even even ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 yours yours PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | always *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **borrow** *in a quote* | may | I | … | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent …=Theme | | 3 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | for a ruler or a rubber | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | the thing | yours | | | | | tree rules | 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:everyday:225-public-transport-and-borrowing.lesson:16`. **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, 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: [Good manners on buses and trains, and…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/225-public-transport-and-borrowing/15/) - next →: [Good manners on buses and trains, and…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/225-public-transport-and-borrowing/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/225-public-transport-and-borrowing/)