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title: Taking something from a shop without paying is stealing (shoplifting… — The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking something from a shop without paying is stealing (shoplifting); going back with a grown-up to pay and say sorry helps put it right. Who acts: Taking, going. A sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret, sentence 9

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Taking something from a shop without paying is stealing (shoplifting); going back with a grown-up to pay and say sorry helps put it right.

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**Who acts:** Taking, going · **What happens:** take, pay, steal, go back, grow, say · **To what, where:** something, shop, grown up, sorry, up · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» of the reflection 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 (Taking, going), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:9
# text = Taking something from a shop without paying is stealing (shoplifting); going back with a grown-up to pay and say sorry helps put it right.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	shoplifting	shoplifting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	csubj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
18	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
20	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	_
26	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	right	right	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **take** | gerund |  | something |  | a shop |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent something=Theme from shop=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **steal** | present · progressive | Taking |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go back** | gerund |  | a grown up |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **pay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
| 8 | **help** | present | going |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 9 | **put** | infinitive | going *not said here* | up |  |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

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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:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:9`.

**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, 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/).

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