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title: Losing pocket money for damaging something is a consequence, not a s… — When you want what others have · tree and pragmatics
description: Losing pocket money for damaging something is a consequence, not a sign that you are loved less. Who acts: Losing, sign. A sentence of the lesson «When you want what others have» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When you want what others have, sentence 23

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Losing pocket money for damaging something is a consequence, not a sign that you are loved less.

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**Who acts:** Losing, sign · **What happens:** lose, damage, be, love · **To what, where:** pocket money, something, consequence, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When you want what others have» 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 (Losing, sign), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.lesson:23
# text = Losing pocket money for damaging something is a consequence, not a sign that you are loved less.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj
2	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
5	damaging	damage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	obl	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:WDT:PronType=Rel
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | gerund |  | pocket money |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality |
| 2 | **damage** | gerund |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Losing | a consequence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **love** | present · passive | a sign *not said here* | you |  |  |  | less *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.lesson:23`.

**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): 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/).

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