--- title: Taking something from a shop without paying is stealing, even if it… — Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shop… · tree and pragmatics description: Taking something from a shop without paying is stealing, even if it is only a chocolate bar. Who acts: Taking, neighbourhood. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper/29/) [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/) / [Neighbours who don't speak and the fri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper/) / 29 # Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 29 Taking something from a shop without paying is stealing, even if it is only a chocolate bar. **Who acts:** Taking, neighbourhood · **What happens:** take, pay, steal, be · **To what, where:** something, shop, chocolate bar This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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, neighbourhood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:29 # text = Taking something from a shop without paying is stealing, even if it is only a chocolate bar. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.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 Taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 without without SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 stealing steal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 even even ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 chocolate chocolate NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 advcl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | | something | | a shop | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent something=Theme from shop=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **pay** | gerund | Taking *not said here* | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **steal** | present · progressive | Taking | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | neighbourhood | a chocolate bar | | | | | tree rules | 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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:29`. **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. 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