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title: Taking sweets from a shop without paying is stealing; it is against… — Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking sweets from a shop without paying is stealing; it is against the law and the shop loses out. Who acts: Taking, traffic, shop. A sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares, sentence 20

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Taking sweets from a shop without paying is stealing; it is against the law and the shop loses out.

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**Who acts:** Taking, traffic, shop · **What happens:** take, pay, steal, be, lose out · **To what, where:** sweets, shop

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» 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, traffic, shop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.lesson:20
# text = Taking sweets from a shop without paying is stealing; it is against the law and the shop loses out.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.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	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod
6	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 |  | sweets |  | a shop |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme from shop=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **steal** | present · progressive | Taking |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | traffic |  |  |  |  | against the law | tree rules |
| 5 | **lose out** | present | the shop |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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:284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.lesson:20`.

**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/).

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