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title: Changing a few words in someone else's writing does not make it your… — School rules, honesty and wrong accusations · tree and pragmatics
description: Changing a few words in someone else's writing does not make it yours; it is still copying. Who acts: Changing, writing, someone. A sentence of the lesson «School rules, honesty and wrong accusations» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# School rules, honesty and wrong accusations, sentence 9

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Changing a few words in someone else's writing does not make it yours; it is still copying.

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**Who acts:** Changing, writing, someone · **What happens:** change, not make, copy, write · **To what, where:** few words, writing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «School rules, honesty and wrong accusations» of the ai 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 (Changing, writing, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:011-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations.lesson:9
# text = Changing a few words in someone else's writing does not make it yours; it is still copying.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 011-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	else	else	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
9	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	copying	copy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **change** | gerund |  | a few words |  | someone's writing |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Changing | writing |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **copy** | present · progressive | writing |  |  |  | still |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **write** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom writing «act transitive»: 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:ai:011-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations.lesson:9`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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