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title: Putting a theft right means giving back or paying back, and saying s… — Sweets, change and a friend's toy · tree and pragmatics
description: Putting a theft right means giving back or paying back, and saying sorry to the person. Who acts: Putting. 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 20

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Putting a theft right means giving back or paying back, and saying sorry to the person.

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**Who acts:** Putting · **What happens:** put, mean, give back, pay back, say · **To what, where:** theft · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Putting), 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:20
# text = Putting a theft right means giving back or paying back, and saying sorry to the person.
# 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	Putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	right	right	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:ccomp
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **put** | gerund |  | a theft |  |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent theft=Goal |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Putting |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give back** *not said to happen* | gerund | Putting *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pay back** | gerund | Putting *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: apologize* | gerund | Putting *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:20`.

**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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