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title: Example: a girl in Toronto borrows her friend's new rubber and loses… — Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing… · tree and pragmatics
description: Example: a girl in Toronto borrows her friend's new rubber and loses it. Who acts: girl. 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 clause.
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# Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things, sentence 6

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Example: a girl in Toronto borrows her friend's new rubber and loses it.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** borrow, lose · **To what, where:** new rubber, rubber

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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 (girl), 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:6
# text = Example: a girl in Toronto borrows her friend's new rubber and loses it.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj:outer
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	borrows	borrow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 | **borrow** | present | a girl in Toronto | girl's friend's new rubber |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubber=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | present | a girl in Toronto *not said here* | rubber |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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:6`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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/).

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