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title: There is no "change 30 percent and it's yours" rule; what matters is… — Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, givi… · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no "change 30 percent and it's yours" rule; what matters is whether the original can still be recognised. Who acts: change percent, percent. A sentence of the lesson «Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit, sentence 11

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There is no "change 30 percent and it's yours" rule; what matters is whether the original can still be recognised.

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**Who acts:** change percent, percent · **What happens:** be, matter · **To what, where:** yours, original

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit» of the arts 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 (change percent, percent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.lesson:11
# text = There is no "change 30 percent and it's yours" rule; what matters is whether the original can still be recognised.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
5	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
13	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:outer	_	_
16	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	csubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **be** | present | no change percent |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | percent | yours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **matter** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | can · present · passive |  | the original |  |  | still | recognise *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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**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:arts:035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.lesson:11`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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