--- title: Mistakes can be put right: when a 4-year-old walks out holding a toy… — Taking without paying: the consequences · tree and pragmatics description: Mistakes can be put right: when a 4-year-old walks out holding a toy he didn't understand he had to pay for, Mum takes it straight back and says sorry, and when Kai finds a £1 coin on the floor he hands it in. Who acts: year old, shop, Mum, Kai. 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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 (year old, shop, Mum, Kai), 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:3 # text = Mistakes can be put right: when a 4-year-old walks out holding a toy he didn't understand he had to pay for, Mum takes it straight back and says sorry, and when Kai finds a £1 coin on the floor he hands it in. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 right right ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 9 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 nsubj _ _ 14 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 15 out out ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 26 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 straight straight ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 back back ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 36 sorry sorry INTJ UH _ 35 ccomp _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 40 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 advcl _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 £ £ SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 44 case _ _ 44 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 45 nummod _ _ 45 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 46 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:nmod 49 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 50 hands hand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 51 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ _ 52 in in ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | can · passive | | Mistakes | | | | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | | 2 | **walk out** | present | a year old | | | | | | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hold** | gerund | a year old *not said here* | a toy | | | | out *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme | | 4 | **not** **understand** | past · do-support | shop | a toy *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | past | shop | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **pay** | to-infinitive | shop *not said here* | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **take** | present | Mum | toy | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **find** | present | Kai | a 1 coin | | the floor | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Topic | | 10 | **hand** | present | shop | coin | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:3`. **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, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Taking without paying: the consequences, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences/2/) - next →: [Taking without paying: the consequences, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences/)