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title: Taking is wrong, but people disagree about how much need and mercy s… — Finders keepers and what belongs to whom · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking is wrong, but people disagree about how much need and mercy should change the punishment (disputed). Who acts: Taking, people, much need. 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
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# Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, sentence 17

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Taking is wrong, but people disagree about how much need and mercy should change the punishment (disputed).

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**Who acts:** Taking, people, much need · **What happens:** take, be, disagree, change, dispute · **To what, where:** punishment

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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 (Taking, people, much need), 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:17
# text = Taking is wrong, but people disagree about how much need and mercy should change the punishment (disputed).
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	csubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
19	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **take** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Taking |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **disagree** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **change** | should | much need and mercy | the punishment |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Patient |
| 5 | **dispute** | participle |  | the punishment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×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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