--- title: Children in the playground often shout "finders keepers, losers weep… — Finders keepers and what belongs to whom · tree and pragmatics description: Children in the playground often shout "finders keepers, losers weepers", but a lost thing does not stop belonging to its owner just because you found it. Who acts: Children, lost thing, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children, lost thing, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:042-finders-keepers-and-what-belongs-to-whom.lesson:0 # text = Children in the playground often shout "finders keepers, losers weepers", but a lost thing does not stop belonging to its owner just because you found it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 042-finders-keepers-and-what-belongs-to-whom.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 shout shout VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 8 finders finder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 compound _ _ 9 keepers keeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 losers loser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 12 weepers weeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 22 belonging belong VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 just just ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Children in the playground | finders keepers and losers weepers | | | | often *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keeper=Topic | | 2 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **stop** | present · do-support | a lost thing | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **belong** | gerund | a lost thing *not said here* | | | | | to thing's owner | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **find** | past | you | thing | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:religion-ethics:042-finders-keepers-and-what-belongs-to-whom.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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