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title: When nobody owns up, often the whole group pays, so owning up quickl… — Sweets, change and a friend's toy · tree and pragmatics
description: When nobody owns up, often the whole group pays, so owning up quickly is fairer to everyone. Who acts: nobody, whole group, owning. 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 19

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When nobody owns up, often the whole group pays, so owning up quickly is fairer to everyone.

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**Who acts:** nobody, whole group, owning · **What happens:** own up, pay, be

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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: who acts (nobody, whole group, owning), 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:19
# text = When nobody owns up, often the whole group pays, so owning up quickly is fairer to everyone.
# 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 ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
3	owns	own	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	owning	own	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	csubj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **own up** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **pay** | present | the whole group |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **own up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is** | present | owning |  |  |  |  | to everyone; fair *property* | 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:19`.

**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 ×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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