--- title: Not sharing a new toy because it might break can send a friend home… — Taking too much · tree and pragmatics description: Not sharing a new toy because it might break can send a friend home early, not wanting to play again; sharing it and showing how to use it gently is wiser. Who acts: toy, sharing. 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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 (toy, sharing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:18 # text = Not sharing a new toy because it might break can send a friend home early, not wanting to play again; sharing it and showing how to use it gently is wiser. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.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 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 sharing share VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 csubj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 home home ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 15 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 wanting want VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 again again ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 sharing share VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 csubj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ _ 27 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 gently gently ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 wiser wise ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 parataxis _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **share** | gerund | | a new toy | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **break** | might | toy | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **send** | can | sharing | a friend | | | | early, home *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | | 4 | **not** **want** | gerund | sharing *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sharing *not said here* | | | | again | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **share** | gerund | | friend | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **show** | gerund | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **use** | to-infinitive | | friend | | | | gently *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 9 | **is** | present | sharing | | | | | wise *property* | tree rules | 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:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.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): 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. 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