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title: A machine has an owner, so keeping a machine's mistake profits from… — Honesty with money: too much change and the foun… · tree and pragmatics
description: A machine has an owner, so keeping a machine's mistake profits from someone's loss. Who acts: machine. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet, sentence 12

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A machine has an owner, so keeping a machine's mistake profits from someone's loss.

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**Who acts:** machine · **What happens:** have, keep, profit · **To what, where:** owner, mistake profits, loss

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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 (machine), 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:12
# text = A machine has an owner, so keeping a machine's mistake profits from someone's loss.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	profits	profit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | a machine | a owner |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | a machine *not said here* | a machine's mistake profits |  | someone's loss |  |  | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer profit=Beneficiary from loss=Eventuality |
| 3 | **profit** |  | a machine |  |  |  |  |  | nom profit «possession 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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**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:095-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet.lesson:12`.

**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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