--- title: Sometimes greed goes unnoticed — nobody counts the pencils — but the… — Taking too much · tree and pragmatics description: Sometimes greed goes unnoticed — nobody counts the pencils — but the person left with the broken ones still notices. Who acts: greed, nobody, person. A sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» 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/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/9/) [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/) / [Taking too much](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/) / 9 # Taking too much, sentence 9 Sometimes greed goes unnoticed — nobody counts the pencils — but the person left with the broken ones still notices. **Who acts:** greed, nobody, person · **What happens:** go, count, leave, break, notice · **To what, where:** pencils This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» 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 (greed, nobody, person), 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:9 # text = Sometimes greed goes unnoticed — nobody counts the pencils — but the person left with the broken ones still notices. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 2 greed greed NOUN NN _ 3 nsubj _ _ 3 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unnoticed unnotic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 — - PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 7 nsubj _ _ 7 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 pencils pencil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 — - PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 14 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 18 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 still still ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 notices notice VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | greed | | | | | sometimes, unnotic *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **count** | present | nobody | the pencils | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | past | the person *not said here* | | | | | with the broken ones | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with one=Theme | | 4 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **notice** | present | the person | | | | still | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:9`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Taking too much, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/8/) - next →: [Taking too much, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing/)