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title: Fruit from a neighbour's tree belongs to the neighbour, even if a br… — Borrowing without asking · tree and pragmatics
description: Fruit from a neighbour's tree belongs to the neighbour, even if a branch hangs over your fence. Who acts: Fruit, branch. 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 18

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Fruit from a neighbour's tree belongs to the neighbour, even if a branch hangs over your fence.

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**Who acts:** Fruit, branch · **What happens:** belong, hang · **To what, where:** fence

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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 (Fruit, branch), 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:18
# text = Fruit from a neighbour's tree belongs to the neighbour, even if a branch hangs over your fence.
# 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
1	Fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
15	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present | Fruit from a neighbour's tree |  |  |  |  | to the neighbour | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hang** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a branch |  |  | your fence |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fence=Location |

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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:18`.

**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. **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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