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title: A parent is often more hurt by being stolen from than by the money i… — Sweets, change and a friend's toy · tree and pragmatics
description: A parent is often more hurt by being stolen from than by the money itself. Who acts: money. 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 23

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A parent is often more hurt by being stolen from than by the money itself.

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**Who acts:** money · **What happens:** be, steal · **To what, where:** parent

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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 (money), 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:23
# text = A parent is often more hurt by being stolen from than by the money itself.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:aux
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	hurt	hurt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · passive |  | a parent |  |  |  | hurt, often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **steal** | gerund · passive | the money  parent |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:23`.

**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, R8-pos-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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