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title: When Zak's mate dares him to pocket a bar, Zak says no and walks out… — Taking without paying: the consequences · tree and pragmatics
description: When Zak's mate dares him to pocket a bar, Zak says no and walks out: getting caught can mean a ban from the shop, a call to parents, or the police, and a young person can get a warning that stays on a record. Who acts: mate, Zak, getting, young person. A sentence of the lesson «Taking without payin
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# Taking without paying: the consequences, sentence 1

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When Zak's mate dares him to pocket a bar, Zak says no and walks out: getting caught can mean a ban from the shop, a call to parents, or the police, and a young person can get a warning that stays on a record.

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**Who acts:** mate, Zak, getting, young person, warning · **What happens:** dare, pocket, say, walk out, get, catch · **To what, where:** Zak, bar, ban, shop, warning, record · **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 (mate, Zak, getting, young person), 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:1
# text = When Zak's mate dares him to pocket a bar, Zak says no and walks out: getting caught can mean a ban from the shop, a call to parents, or the police, and a young person can get a warning that stays on a record.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Zak	Zak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	dares	dare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pocket	pocket	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	Zak	Zak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	13	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Neg
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	csubj	_	_
20	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ban	ban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:parataxis
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **dare** | present | Zak's mate | Zak |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pocket** | to-infinitive | Zak's mate *not said here* | a bar |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bar=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Zak |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **walk out** | present | Zak *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **catch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **mean** | can | getting | a ban and a call to parents or the police |  | the shop |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ban=Topic |
| 8 | **get** | can | a young person | a warning |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer warning=Stimulus |
| 9 | **stay** | present | a warning |  |  | a record |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on record=Location |

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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 ×2, 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.

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