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title: «Borrowing» without asking is still taking: Dad's charger taken to s… — Borrowing without asking · tree and pragmatics
description: «Borrowing» without asking is still taking: Dad's charger taken to school and lost meant Dad's phone died at work and he missed a call. Who acts: phone. A sentence of the lesson «Borrowing without asking» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Borrowing without asking, sentence 11

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«Borrowing» without asking is still taking: Dad's charger taken to school and lost meant Dad's phone died at work and he missed a call.

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**Who acts:** phone · **What happens:** borrow, ask, take, lose, mean, die · **To what, where:** charger, work, call · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Borrowing without asking» 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 (phone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:339-borrowing-without-asking.lesson:11
# text = «Borrowing» without asking is still taking: Dad's charger taken to school and lost meant Dad's phone died at work and he missed a call.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 339-borrowing-without-asking.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Borrowing	borrow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	nsubj	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
10	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
18	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obj
22	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **borrow** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | present · progressive |  | Dad's charger |  |  | still |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | participle |  | Dad's charger *not said here* |  |  |  | to school *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to school=Result |
| 5 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **mean** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **die** | past | Dad's phone |  |  | work |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 8 | **miss** | past | phone | a call |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus |

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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:339-borrowing-without-asking.lesson:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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