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description: The commandment "You shall not steal" (Exodus 20:15) covers more than grabbing things: keeping extra change, borrowing without asking, copying someone's work and using what was stolen are all ways of taking what is not yours. Who acts: You, commandment, ways, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Finde
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# Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, sentence 2

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The commandment "You shall not steal" (Exodus 20:15) covers more than grabbing things: keeping extra change, borrowing without asking, copying someone's work and using what was stolen are all ways of taking what is not yours.

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**Who acts:** You, commandment, ways, someone · **What happens:** not steal, cover, grab, keep, borrow, ask · **To what, where:** more, things, extra change, work, ways, yours · **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 (You, commandment, ways, someone), 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:2
# text = The commandment "You shall not steal" (Exodus 20:15) covers more than grabbing things: keeping extra change, borrowing without asking, copying someone's work and using what was stolen are all ways of taking what is not yours.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
4	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	appos	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Exodus	Exodus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	20:15	20:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
13	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	obj	_	_
15	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	grabbing	grab	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	advcl	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	nsubj	_	_
20	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	borrowing	borrow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
24	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	copying	copy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	_
28	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	_
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	obj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
39	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
41	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	40	obj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **not** **steal** *in a quote* | shall | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | present | the commandment | more |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Destination |
| 3 | **grab** | gerund | the commandment *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | gerund |  | extra change |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme |
| 5 | **borrow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **copy** | gerund |  | someone's work |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 8 | **use** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 9 | **steal** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» |
| 10 | **is a** | present |  | all ways |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **take** | gerund | all ways *not said here* | all ways |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 12 | **not** **is a** | present |  | yours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 13 | **work** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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): 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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