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title: Being inspired means using an idea or style in something new; copyin… — Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, givi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Being inspired means using an idea or style in something new; copying means taking the actual picture. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit, sentence 15

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Being inspired means using an idea or style in something new; copying means taking the actual picture.

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**What happens:** inspire, mean, use, copy, take · **To what, where:** idea, something, actual picture · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:15
# text = Being inspired means using an idea or style in something new; copying means taking the actual picture.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	csubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	copying	copy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:csubj
14	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
15	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	actual	actual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **inspire** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **use** *not said to happen* | gerund |  | a idea or style |  | something |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 4 | **copy** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **take** *not said to happen* | gerund |  | the actual picture |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme |

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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:15`.

**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 ×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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