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title: Using a parent's account to buy something without asking is taking t… — Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos · tree and pragmatics
description: Using a parent's account to buy something without asking is taking their money. Who acts: Using, parent. A sentence of the lesson «Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos, sentence 22

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Using a parent's account to buy something without asking is taking their money.

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**Who acts:** Using, parent · **What happens:** use, buy, ask, take, account · **To what, where:** account, something, money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos» 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, parent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins.lesson:22
# text = Using a parent's account to buy something without asking is taking their money.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins.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	Using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **use** | gerund |  | a parent's account |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Patient |
| 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | present · progressive | Using | parents's money |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 5 | **account** |  | a parent |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins.lesson:22`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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