--- title: And sometimes asking gets you more: the neighbour whose apples Noah… — Borrowing without asking · tree and pragmatics description: And sometimes asking gets you more: the neighbour whose apples Noah took on a dare said, «Next time just ask», and gave him a whole bag. Who acts: asking, Noah, neighbour. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (asking, Noah, neighbour), 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:13 # text = And sometimes asking gets you more: the neighbour whose apples Noah took on a dare said, «Next time just ask», and gave him a whole bag. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 3 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 4 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 10 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 12 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dare dare NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 20 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 just just ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 27 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get** | present | asking | more | you | | | sometimes *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary more=Theme | | 3 | **take** | past | Noah | apples | | a dare | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent apple=Theme on dare=Destination | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the neighbour | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | time | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **give** | past | the neighbour *not said here* | a whole bag | Noah | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bag=Theme | 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. **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:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Borrowing without asking, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/12/) - next →: [Borrowing without asking, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/)