--- title: When something has been taken from a shop, the fair way is to go bac… — Borrowing without asking · tree and pragmatics description: When something has been taken from a shop, the fair way is to go back with a grown-up, give it back and say sorry yourself. Who acts: fair way. 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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 (fair way), 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:21 # text = When something has been taken from a shop, the fair way is to go back with a grown-up, give it back and say sorry yourself. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 16 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 19 grown grow NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 21 up up ADV RB _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 23 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advcl 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:iobj 25 back back ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 28 sorry sorry INTJ UH _ 27 discourse _ _ 29 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present · perfect · passive | | something | | a shop | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from shop=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **is** | present | the fair way | | | | | go *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **give back** | infinitive | the fair way *not said here* | way | | | | with grown | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the fair way *not said here* | yourself | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic | 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:21`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/20/) - next →: [Borrowing without asking, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/)