--- title: Taking someone's ball and refusing to give it back is stealing, even… — Our street against theirs · tree and pragmatics description: Taking someone's ball and refusing to give it back is stealing, even if it is called a «pinch» or a joke. Who acts: Taking. A sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» 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/382-our-street-against-theirs/16/) [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/) / [Our street against theirs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/) / 16 # Our street against theirs, sentence 16 Taking someone's ball and refusing to give it back is stealing, even if it is called a «pinch» or a joke. **Who acts:** Taking · **What happens:** take, refuse, not give back, steal, call · **To what, where:** ball · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» 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 (Taking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:16 # text = Taking someone's ball and refusing to give it back is stealing, even if it is called a «pinch» or a joke. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 382-our-street-against-theirs.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 refusing refuse VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 back back ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 stealing steal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 even even ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 pinch pinch NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | gerund | | someone's ball | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | | 2 | **refuse** | gerund | | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **not** **give back** | to-infinitive | | ball | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **steal** | present · progressive | Taking | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **call** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | ball | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:16`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Our street against theirs, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/15/) - next →: [Our street against theirs, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/)