--- title: Some cases are hard and people disagree, such as a starving person t… — Finders keepers and what belongs to whom · tree and pragmatics description: Some cases are hard and people disagree, such as a starving person taking bread; a good answer says taking is wrong but also asks why it happened and what mercy and fairness need. Who acts: cases, people, starving person, good answer. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cases, people, starving person, good answer), 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:4 # text = Some cases are hard and people disagree, such as a starving person taking bread; a good answer says taking is wrong but also asks why it happened and what mercy and fairness need. # 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 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and 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 4 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 starving starve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 amod _ _ 13 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 14 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 21 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 csubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 ccomp _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 also also ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 27 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 35 obj _ _ 32 mercy mercy NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 fairness fairness NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some cases | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **disagree** | present | people | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **starve** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | gerund | a starving person *not said here* | bread | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a good answer | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **take** | gerund | | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | taking | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a good answer *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **happen** | past | it | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **need** | present | mercy and fairness | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | 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. **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:4`. **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. **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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