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A sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and comin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/16-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean/19/) [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/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/16-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean/) / 19 # Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 19 "Finders keepers" is not true for things like phones; keeping something you could return is a kind of stealing, and lost property offices exist to return things. **Who acts:** Finders keepers, you, keeping, lost property offices · **What happens:** not be, keep, return, be, lose, exist · **To what, where:** something, kind, things This is a sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» 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 (Finders keepers, you, keeping, lost property offices), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:19 # text = "Finders keepers" is not true for things like phones; keeping something you could return is a kind of stealing, and lost property offices exist to return things. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.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 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Finders finder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 compound _ _ 3 keepers keeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj 14 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 stealing stealing NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 26 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 offices office NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 exist exist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:xcomp 31 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | Finders keepers | | | | | for things like phones; true *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | gerund | | something | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 3 | **return** | could | you | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | keeping | a kind | | | | of stealing | tree rules | | 5 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **exist** | present | lost property offices | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **return** | to-infinitive | lost property offices *not said here* | things | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:19`. **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. **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. 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