--- title: Using someone's phone without asking can drain their battery when th… — Spending money online without asking · tree and pragmatics description: Using someone's phone without asking can drain their battery when they need it, so they may miss an important call. Who acts: Using, tricks. A sentence of the lesson «Spending money online without asking» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/21/) [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/) / [Spending money online without asking](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/) / 21 # Spending money online without asking, sentence 21 Using someone's phone without asking can drain their battery when they need it, so they may miss an important call. **Who acts:** Using, tricks · **What happens:** use, ask, drain, need, miss · **To what, where:** phone, battery, important call This is a sentence of the lesson «Spending money online 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 (Using, tricks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes.lesson:21 # text = Using someone's phone without asking can drain their battery when they need it, so they may miss an important call. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes.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 ×1 1 Using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 without without SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 drain drain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 miss miss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | gerund | | someone's phone | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **drain** | can | Using | tricks's battery | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent battery=Source | | 4 | **need** | present | tricks *= trick* | battery | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 5 | **miss** | may | tricks *= trick* | a important call | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus | 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:362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes.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): R7-rel-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: [Spending money online without asking, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/20/) - next →: [Spending money online without asking, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes/)