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title: «Finders keepers, losers weepers» is a playground rhyme, not a rule. — Being trusted and what to do with things you find · tree and pragmatics
description: «Finders keepers, losers weepers» is a playground rhyme, not a rule. Who acts: Finders. 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 3

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«Finders keepers, losers weepers» is a playground rhyme, not a rule.

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**Who acts:** Finders · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** playground rhyme

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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: who acts (Finders), 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:3
# text = «Finders keepers, losers weepers» is a playground rhyme, not a rule.
# 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	``	_	2	case	_	_
2	Finders	finder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	flat	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	losers	loser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
6	weepers	weeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
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 | **is a** | present | Finders | a playground rhyme and a rule |  |  |  |  | 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:286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find.lesson:3`.

**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/).

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