--- title: Little children sometimes take things without understanding; a grown… — Taking without paying: the consequences · tree and pragmatics description: Little children sometimes take things without understanding; a grown-up puts it right by taking the item back. Who acts: Little children, grown up. 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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 (Little children, grown up), 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:13 # text = Little children sometimes take things without understanding; a grown-up puts it right by taking the item back. # 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 ×3 1 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 4 advmod _ _ 4 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 without without ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 understanding understanding NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 10 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 12 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 13 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 right right ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 by by SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 item item NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 back back ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | present | Little children | things | | | | without understanding; sometimes *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **put** | present | a grown up | understanding | | | | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 4 | **take back** | gerund | a grown up *not said here* | the item | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent item=Theme | 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:13`. **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 ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Taking without paying: the consequences, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences/12/) - next →: [Taking without paying: the consequences, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences/)