--- title: Shoplifting means taking things from a shop without paying; it is st… — Taking without paying: the consequences · tree and pragmatics description: Shoplifting means taking things from a shop without paying; it is stealing. Who acts: Shoplifting. A sentence of the lesson «Taking without paying: the consequences» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Taking without paying: the consequences](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences/) / 4 # Taking without paying: the consequences, sentence 4 Shoplifting means taking things from a shop without paying; it is stealing. **Who acts:** Shoplifting · **What happens:** mean, take, pay, steal · **To what, where:** things, shop 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 (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:4 # text = Shoplifting means taking things from a shop without paying; it is stealing. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Shoplifting shoplifting NOUN NN _ 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 8 without without SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 stealing steal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 14 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Shoplifting | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **take** *not said to happen* | gerund | Shoplifting *not said here* | things | | a shop | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from shop=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **pay** | gerund | Shoplifting *not said here* | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **steal** | present · progressive | shoplifting | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:4`. **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 ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Taking without paying: the consequences, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences/3/) - next →: [Taking without paying: the consequences, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences/)