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title: If one of us does something, he owns it.» The pact mostly held, and… — Trusting again · tree and pragmatics
description: If one of us does something, he owns it.» The pact mostly held, and Mum said the house was calmer than it had been in years. Who acts: one, Oisin, pact, Mum. A sentence of the lesson «Trusting again» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Trusting again, sentence 22

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If one of us does something, he owns it.» The pact mostly held, and Mum said the house was calmer than it had been in years.

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**Who acts:** one, Oisin, pact, Mum, house · **What happens:** do, own, hold, say, be · **To what, where:** something, pact · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trusting again» 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 (one, Oisin, pact, Mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:455-trusting-again.lesson:22
# text = If one of us does something, he owns it.» The pact mostly held, and Mum said the house was calmer than it had been in years.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 455-trusting-again.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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	owns	own	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pact	pact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	calmer	calm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	ccomp	_	_
25	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:mark
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:aux
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16: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 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one of us | something |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
| 2 | **own** | present | Oisin | pact |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** *in a quote* | past | the pact |  |  |  |  | mostly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the house |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | participle | the house *not said here* |  |  |  | in years |  | tree rules |

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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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**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 ×5, R6-punct-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/).

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