--- title: Taking something that is not yours is stealing, even when it is small. — Sweets, change and a friend's toy · tree and pragmatics description: Taking something that is not yours is stealing, even when it is small. Who acts: Taking, it. A sentence of the lesson «Sweets, change and a friend's toy» 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/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/0/) [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/) / [Sweets, change and a friend's toy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/) / 0 # Sweets, change and a friend's toy, sentence 0 Taking something that is not yours is stealing, even when it is small. **Who acts:** Taking, it · **What happens:** take, be, not steal · **To what, where:** something, yours This is a sentence of the lesson «Sweets, change and a friend's toy» 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, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy.lesson:0 # text = Taking something that is not yours is stealing, even when it is small. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 6 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:cop 8 stealing steal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 even even ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 14 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | gerund | | something | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | yours | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **steal** | present · progressive | Taking | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | it | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | 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:338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Excuses and the lies that grow, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/26/) - next →: [Sweets, change and a friend's toy, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/)