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title: Returning lost property, like a purse with £20 and a bank card, is h… — Gambling and honesty with change · tree and pragmatics
description: Returning lost property, like a purse with £20 and a bank card, is honest and kind; imagine how you would feel if it were yours. Who acts: Returning, you, property. A sentence of the lesson «Gambling and honesty with change» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Gambling and honesty with change, sentence 15

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Returning lost property, like a purse with £20 and a bank card, is honest and kind; imagine how you would feel if it were yours.

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**Who acts:** Returning, you, property · **What happens:** return, lose, be, imagine, feel · **To what, where:** lost property, yours

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gambling and honesty with change» 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 (Returning, you, property), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.lesson:15
# text = Returning lost property, like a purse with £20 and a bank card, is honest and kind; imagine how you would feel if it were yours.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advcl
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	£	£	SYM	$	_	7	nmod	_	_
10	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund |  | lost property |  |  |  | like a purse and a bank card | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Returning |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Returning *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **imagine** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **feel** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | property | yours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.lesson:15`.

**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 ×2, 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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