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title: Something lost still belongs to its owner, even if you are the one w… — Finders keepers and what belongs to whom · tree and pragmatics
description: Something lost still belongs to its owner, even if you are the one who found it. Who acts: Something, you, one. 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 clause.
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# Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, sentence 5

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Something lost still belongs to its owner, even if you are the one who found it.

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**Who acts:** Something, you, one · **What happens:** lose, belong, be, find · **To what, where:** one, person

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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 (Something, you, one), 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:5
# text = Something lost still belongs to its owner, even if you are the one who found it.
# 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	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **belong** | present | Something |  |  |  | still | to person's owner | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | past | the one | person |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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): 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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