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title: Borrowing without asking takes away the owner's right to say no, eve… — Finders keepers and what belongs to whom · tree and pragmatics
description: Borrowing without asking takes away the owner's right to say no, even if you give the thing back. Who acts: Borrowing, you. A sentence of the lesson «Finders keepers and what belongs to whom» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, sentence 12

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Borrowing without asking takes away the owner's right to say no, even if you give the thing back.

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**Who acts:** Borrowing, you · **What happens:** borrow, ask, take away, say, give · **To what, where:** right, thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Borrowing, 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:12
# text = Borrowing without asking takes away the owner's right to say no, even if you give the thing back.
# 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): no change
1	Borrowing	borrow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	11	discourse	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **borrow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take away** | present | Borrowing | the owner's right |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Borrowing *not said here* | the owner's right *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | the thing |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

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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:12`.

**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): no change. **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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