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title: If money is found with no name and no way to find the owner, it is b… — Finders keepers and what belongs to whom · tree and pragmatics
description: If money is found with no name and no way to find the owner, it is best to hand it to an adult, a teacher or the police; what to do after that is disputed, and some people give it to charity. Who acts: people. A sentence of the lesson «Finders keepers and what belongs to whom» of the religion ethics
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# Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, sentence 10

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If money is found with no name and no way to find the owner, it is best to hand it to an adult, a teacher or the police; what to do after that is disputed, and some people give it to charity.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** find, be, hand, do, give · **To what, where:** money, owner, adult, charity

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Finders keepers and what belongs to whom» of the religion ethics 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 (people), 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:10
# text = If money is found with no name and no way to find the owner, it is best to hand it to an adult, a teacher or the police; what to do after that is disputed, and some people give it to charity.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	expl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=27:conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	34	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	csubj	_	_
35	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:cop
38	disputed	disputed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	det	_	_
42	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:iobj
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | money |  |  |  | with no name and no way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | the owner |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hand** | to-infinitive |  | owner | a adult and a teacher or the police |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to adult=Destination |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 6 | **give** | present | some people | owner | charity |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to charity=Recipient |

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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:religion-ethics:042-finders-keepers-and-what-belongs-to-whom.lesson:10`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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