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title: Taking something from a shop without paying is called shoplifting, a… — Taking without paying: the consequences · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking something from a shop without paying is called shoplifting, and it is stealing, even if it is only one 80p chocolate bar or one grape from the fruit pile. Who acts: Taking, shoplifting. A sentence of the lesson «Taking without paying: the consequences» of the money course of Mova's primary sc
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# Taking without paying: the consequences, sentence 0

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Taking something from a shop without paying is called shoplifting, and it is stealing, even if it is only one 80p chocolate bar or one grape from the fruit pile.

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**Who acts:** Taking, shoplifting · **What happens:** take, pay, call, steal, be · **To what, where:** something, shop, shoplifting, one p chocolate bar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking without paying: the consequences» of the money 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, shoplifting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:015-taking-without-paying-the-consequences.lesson:0
# text = Taking something from a shop without paying is called shoplifting, and it is stealing, even if it is only one 80p chocolate bar or one grape from the fruit pile.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 015-taking-without-paying-the-consequences.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 ×2
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	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	1	advcl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	shoplifting	shoplifting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:compound
23	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:compound
25	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	grape	grape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Taking | shoplifting |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **steal** | present · progressive | shoplifting |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | shoplifting | one p chocolate bar or one grape from the fruit pile |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:money:015-taking-without-paying-the-consequences.lesson:0`.

**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 ×2. **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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