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description: Tracing is a common way to learn shapes and lines; it becomes a problem only if you claim it as your own original drawing, for example in a competition. Who acts: Tracing, you, your. A sentence of the lesson «Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit» of the arts course of Mova's pri
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# Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit, sentence 5

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Tracing is a common way to learn shapes and lines; it becomes a problem only if you claim it as your own original drawing, for example in a competition.

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**Who acts:** Tracing, you, your · **What happens:** be, learn, become, claim, draw · **To what, where:** common way, shapes, problem, way, competition

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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 (Tracing, you, your), 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:5
# text = Tracing is a common way to learn shapes and lines; it becomes a problem only if you claim it as your own original drawing, for example in a competition.
# 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
1	Tracing	tracing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	claim	claim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	competition	competition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Tracing | a common way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive |  | shapes and lines |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Topic |
| 3 | **become** | present | Tracing | a problem |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **claim** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | way |  |  |  | as your own original drawing in a competition; for example | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 5 | **draw** |  | your |  |  | a competition |  |  | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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. **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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