--- title: If a grown-up says no to buying something, taking it anyway makes tw… — Borrowing without asking · tree and pragmatics description: If a grown-up says no to buying something, taking it anyway makes two wrongs, not one. Who acts: grown up. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Borrowing without asking](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/) / 20 # Borrowing without asking, sentence 20 If a grown-up says no to buying something, taking it anyway makes two wrongs, not one. **Who acts:** grown up · **What happens:** grow, say, buy, take, make · **To what, where:** no, something, up, two wrongs · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (grown up), 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:20 # text = If a grown-up says no to buying something, taking it anyway makes two wrongs, not one. # 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 3 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 7 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 obj _ _ 8 to to SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 buying buy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 10 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 nsubj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 15 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 wrongs wrong NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl 21 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a grown up | no | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | | 3 | **buy** | gerund | a grown up *not said here* | something | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 4 | **take** | gerund | | up | | | | anyway *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **make** | present | | two wrongs | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wrong=Product | 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:20`. **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 ×5, 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, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/19/) - next →: [Borrowing without asking, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/)