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title: Food saved for someone is already theirs. — Sweets, change and a friend's toy · tree and pragmatics
description: Food saved for someone is already theirs. 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.
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# Sweets, change and a friend's toy, sentence 18

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Food saved for someone is already theirs.

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**What happens:** save, be · **To what, where:** Food, sweets

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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: 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:18
# text = Food saved for someone is already theirs.
# 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): no change
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	already	already	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **save** | participle |  | Food *not said here* |  |  |  | for someone | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for someone=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is a** | present · passive |  | sweets *= sweet* |  |  |  |  | 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:338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy.lesson:18`.

**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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