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title: In Aesop's fable, the honest woodcutter said only the iron axe was h… — Honesty with money: too much change and the foun… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Aesop's fable, the honest woodcutter said only the iron axe was his and was given all three; a greedy neighbour claimed the golden one and lost his own; fables are invented stories with a lesson. Who acts: honest woodcutter, greedy neighbour, fables. A sentence of the lesson «Honesty with money: 
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# Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet, sentence 11

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In Aesop's fable, the honest woodcutter said only the iron axe was his and was given all three; a greedy neighbour claimed the golden one and lost his own; fables are invented stories with a lesson.

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**Who acts:** honest woodcutter, greedy neighbour, fables · **What happens:** say, be, claim, lose · **To what, where:** fable, golden one, own · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet» 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 (honest woodcutter, greedy neighbour, fables), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:095-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet.lesson:11
# text = In Aesop's fable, the honest woodcutter said only the iron axe was his and was given all three; a greedy neighbour claimed the golden one and lost his own; fables are invented stories with a lesson.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 095-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Aesop	Aesop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	ccomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obj	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	invented	invent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the honest woodcutter |  |  | Aesop's fable |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in fable=Manner |
| 2 | **is** | past · passive | the honest woodcutter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | give *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | a greedy neighbour | the golden one |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 4 | **lose** | past | a greedy neighbour *not said here* | neighbour's own |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | present | fables |  |  |  |  | invent *property* | tree rules |

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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): 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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