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title: "Finders keepers" is a playground saying, not a rule: the Bible says… — Honesty with money: too much change and the foun… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Finders keepers" is a playground saying, not a rule: the Bible says to give back what your neighbour has lost (Deuteronomy 22:1-3), and in many places found money should be handed in; if nobody claims it after a while, it is often given back to the finder. Who acts: Finders keepers, Bible, neighbou
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# Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet, sentence 3

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"Finders keepers" is a playground saying, not a rule: the Bible says to give back what your neighbour has lost (Deuteronomy 22:1-3), and in many places found money should be handed in; if nobody claims it after a while, it is often given back to the finder.

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**Who acts:** Finders keepers, Bible, neighbour, nobody · **What happens:** be, say, give back, lose, find, hand in · **To what, where:** money, many places, finder · **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 (Finders keepers, Bible, neighbour, nobody), 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:3
# text = "Finders keepers" is a playground saying, not a rule: the Bible says to give back what your neighbour has lost (Deuteronomy 22:1-3), and in many places found money should be handed in; if nobody claims it after a while, it is often given back to the finder.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Finders	finder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	back	back	PART	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Deuteronomy	Deuteronomy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	dep	_	_
27	22:1-3	22:1-3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	flat	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
34	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
35	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
41	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	43	nsubj	_	_
43	claims	claim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:advcl
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	after	after	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	often	often	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	conj	_	_
53	back	back	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=52:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	finder	finder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | present | Finders keepers |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Bible |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give back** | to-infinitive | the Bible *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lose** | present · perfect | your neighbour |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **find** | participle |  | money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hand in** | should · passive |  | money |  | many places |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **claim** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | nobody | Money |  |  | while |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 8 | **give back** | present · passive |  | Money | the finder |  |  | often *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to finder=Recipient |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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