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title: Very small sums with no way to find the owner may be kept, but bigge… — Being trusted and what to do with things you find · tree and pragmatics
description: Very small sums with no way to find the owner may be kept, but bigger finds should be handed in. 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.
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# Being trusted and what to do with things you find, sentence 21

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Very small sums with no way to find the owner may be kept, but bigger finds should be handed in.

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**What happens:** find, keep, hand in · **To what, where:** owner, small sums, bigger finds

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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: 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:21
# text = Very small sums with no way to find the owner may be kept, but bigger finds should be handed in.
# 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): no change
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sums	sum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	finds	find	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | the owner |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** | may · passive |  | small sums with no way |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **hand in** | should · passive |  | bigger finds |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find.lesson:21`.

**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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