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title: Using a classmate's things while they are away from their desk is ta… — Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing… · tree and pragmatics
description: Using a classmate's things while they are away from their desk is taking without asking. Who acts: things, Using. A sentence of the lesson «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things, sentence 19

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Using a classmate's things while they are away from their desk is taking without asking.

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**Who acts:** things, Using · **What happens:** use, be, take, ask · **To what, where:** things, desk

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» 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 (things, Using), 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:19
# text = Using a classmate's things while they are away from their desk is taking without asking.
# 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): no change
1	Using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | gerund |  | a classmate's things |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | things *= thing* |  |  | things's desk |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | present · progressive | Using |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Using *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:19`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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