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title: Coins thrown into a wishing fountain are usually collected for chari… — Borrowing without asking · tree and pragmatics
description: Coins thrown into a wishing fountain are usually collected for charity, so they still belong to someone. Who acts: Coins. 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 every clause.
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# Borrowing without asking, sentence 17

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Coins thrown into a wishing fountain are usually collected for charity, so they still belong to someone.

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**Who acts:** Coins · **What happens:** throw, collect, belong · **To what, where:** Coins, wishing fountain

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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 (Coins), 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:17
# text = Coins thrown into a wishing fountain are usually collected for charity, so they still belong to someone.
# 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): no change
1	Coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wishing	wishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **throw** | participle |  | Coins *not said here* |  |  |  | into a wishing fountain *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into fountain=Result |
| 2 | **collect** | present · passive |  | Coins |  |  |  | for charity; usually *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **belong** | present | Coins *= coin* |  |  |  | still | to someone | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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**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): no change. **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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