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title: Only lend what you could manage to lose, agree when it comes back, a… — Lending, sharing, charity and tipping · tree and pragmatics
description: Only lend what you could manage to lose, agree when it comes back, and it is okay to say no to someone who never pays back; if you break something you borrowed, it is fair to pay for it or replace it. Who acts: you, friendship. A sentence of the lesson «Lending, sharing, charity and tipping» of the 
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# Lending, sharing, charity and tipping, sentence 2

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Only lend what you could manage to lose, agree when it comes back, and it is okay to say no to someone who never pays back; if you break something you borrowed, it is fair to pay for it or replace it.

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**Who acts:** you, friendship · **What happens:** lend, manage, lose, agree, come back, be · **To what, where:** someone, something, friendship · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lending, sharing, charity and tipping» 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 (you, friendship), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:039-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping.lesson:2
# text = Only lend what you could manage to lose, agree when it comes back, and it is okay to say no to someone who never pays back; if you break something you borrowed, it is fair to pay for it or replace it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 039-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping.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): R7-rel-agree ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	lend	lend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	csubj	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
33	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	32	obj	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:xcomp
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	replace	replace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lend** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **manage** | could | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **lose** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come back** | present | friendship |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  | someone |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to someone=Recipient |
| 8 | **not** **pay back** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | something |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Patient |
| 10 | **borrow** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **is** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 12 | **pay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for friendship | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
| 13 | **replace** | infinitive |  | friendship |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |

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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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**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:039-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping.lesson:2`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×5, R8-pos-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/).

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