--- title: «Finders keepers» is a rhyme, not a rule; a lost thing still belongs… — Being trusted and what to do with things you find · tree and pragmatics description: «Finders keepers» is a rhyme, not a rule; a lost thing still belongs to its owner. Who acts: lost thing. A sentence of the lesson «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Being trusted and what to do with thin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/) / 17 # Being trusted and what to do with things you find, sentence 17 «Finders keepers» is a rhyme, not a rule; a lost thing still belongs to its owner. **Who acts:** lost thing · **What happens:** be, lose, belong · **To what, where:** rhyme This is a sentence of the lesson «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» 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 (lost thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find.lesson:17 # text = «Finders keepers» is a rhyme, not a rule; a lost thing still belongs to its owner. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find.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 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Finders finder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 compound _ _ 3 keepers keeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 belongs belong VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | a rhyme and a rule | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **belong** | present | a lost thing | | | | still | to rule's owner | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | 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:286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find.lesson:17`. **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. **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: [Being trusted and what to do with thin…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/16/) - next →: [Being trusted and what to do with thin…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/)