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title: Taking money from a parent's purse without asking is stealing, even… — Prices, change, borrowing and lending · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking money from a parent's purse without asking is stealing, even at home. Who acts: Taking. A sentence of the lesson «Prices, change, borrowing and lending» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Prices, change, borrowing and lending, sentence 14

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Taking money from a parent's purse without asking is stealing, even at home.

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**Who acts:** Taking · **What happens:** take, ask, be · **To what, where:** money, purse, home

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Prices, change, borrowing and lending» 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 (Taking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing.lesson:14
# text = Taking money from a parent's purse without asking is stealing, even at home.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 262-prices-change-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	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **take** | gerund |  | money |  | a parent's purse |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent money=Theme from purse=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Taking |  |  | home |  | steal *property* | tree rules |

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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:262-prices-change-and-borrowing.lesson:14`.

**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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