--- title: A tiny coin on an empty pavement is different: there is no way to fi… — Being trusted and what to do with things you find · tree and pragmatics description: A tiny coin on an empty pavement is different: there is no way to find its owner, so a few cents or pennies may be kept, but bigger finds should be handed in. Who acts: tiny coin, way. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiny coin, way), 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:8 # text = A tiny coin on an empty pavement is different: there is no way to find its owner, so a few cents or pennies 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 pavement pavement NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 12 expl _ _ 12 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 cents cent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 pennies penny NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ _ 32 finds find NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 handed hand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed hedge=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a tiny coin on a empty pavement | | | | | different *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | present | no way | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | no way *not said here* | way's owner | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Topic | | 4 | **keep** | may · passive | | a few cents or pennies | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **hand in** | should · passive | | bigger finds | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:8`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Being trusted and what to do with thin…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/7/) - next →: [Being trusted and what to do with thin…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/)