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title: If a found thing has a name or address, the right thing is to return… — Finders keepers and what belongs to whom · tree and pragmatics
description: If a found thing has a name or address, the right thing is to return it whole, with nothing taken out. Who acts: found thing, right thing. 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 pragm
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# Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, sentence 8

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If a found thing has a name or address, the right thing is to return it whole, with nothing taken out.

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**Who acts:** found thing, right thing · **What happens:** find, have, be, take out · **To what, where:** name

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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 (found thing, right thing), 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:8
# text = If a found thing has a name or address, the right thing is to return it whole, with nothing taken out.
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obl	_	_
22	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a found thing | a name or address |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the right thing |  |  |  |  | with nothing; return, whole *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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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**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:8`.

**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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