--- title: A grown-up who asks a child to carry stolen things is using the chil… — Taking without paying: the consequences · tree and pragmatics description: A grown-up who asks a child to carry stolen things is using the child, and the child can get into serious trouble; say no and tell a trusted adult. Who acts: up, child. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (up, child), 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:12 # text = A grown-up who asks a child to carry stolen things is using the child, and the child can get into serious trouble; say no and tell a trusted adult. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:det 2 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 nsubj _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl:relcl 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl 11 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advcl 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 28 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 27 discourse _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a up | | a child | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **carry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a up *not said here* | stolen things | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 4 | **steal** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **use** | present · progressive | | the child | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 6 | **get** | can | the child | | | serious trouble | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | a trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 9 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:money:015-taking-without-paying-the-consequences.lesson:12`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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