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title: Facts are free to use, but someone's exact words are their writing;… — Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, givi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Facts are free to use, but someone's exact words are their writing; copying sentences without credit is called plagiarism. Who acts: Facts, exact words, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit, sentence 7

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Facts are free to use, but someone's exact words are their writing; copying sentences without credit is called plagiarism.

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**Who acts:** Facts, exact words, someone · **What happens:** be, use, copy, call, word · **To what, where:** writing, sentences, plagiarism · **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: who acts (Facts, exact words, someone), 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:7
# text = Facts are free to use, but someone's exact words are their writing; copying sentences without credit is called plagiarism.
# 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	Facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	copying	copy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
17	sentences	sentence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
22	plagiarism	plagiarism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **is** | present | Facts |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | to-infinitive | Facts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | someone's exact words | words's writing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **copy** | gerund |  | sentences |  |  |  | without credit | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | present · passive |  | plagiarism |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 6 | **word** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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**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.

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