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title: In the novel Les Misérables, Jean Valjean is sent to prison for year… — Finders keepers and what belongs to whom · tree and pragmatics
description: In the novel Les Misérables, Jean Valjean is sent to prison for years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's hungry children. 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 pragmat
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# Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, sentence 16

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In the novel Les Misérables, Jean Valjean is sent to prison for years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's hungry children.

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**What happens:** send, steal, feed · **To what, where:** Jean, novel, loaf, hungry children

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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: 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:16
# text = In the novel Les Misérables, Jean Valjean is sent to prison for years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's hungry children.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	novel	novel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	Les	Les	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Misérables	Misérables	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	Jean	Jean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	Valjean	Valjean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
12	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:xcomp
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **send** | present · passive |  | Jean |  | the novel | year | to prison | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in novel=Destination |
| 2 | **steal** | gerund |  | a loaf of bread |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location loaf=Theme |
| 3 | **feed** | to-infinitive |  |  | Jean's sister's hungry children |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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:16`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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