--- title: Using your own words is fine if the meaning stays exactly the same,… — Retrieval: finding the answer in the text · tree and pragmatics description: Using your own words is fine if the meaning stays exactly the same, but in tests the text's own words are safest. Who acts: Using, meaning, own words, your. A sentence of the lesson «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Retrieval: finding the answer in the t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text/) / 24 # Retrieval: finding the answer in the text, sentence 24 Using your own words is fine if the meaning stays exactly the same, but in tests the text's own words are safest. **Who acts:** Using, meaning, own words, your, text · **What happens:** use, be, stay, word · **To what, where:** own words, tests This is a sentence of the lesson «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» of the english 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 (Using, meaning, own words, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:017-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text.lesson:24 # text = Using your own words is fine if the meaning stays exactly the same, but in tests the text's own words are safest. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 017-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text.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): no change 1 Using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 11 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 safest safe ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | gerund | | your own words | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | Using | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the meaning | | | | | same *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | the text's own words | | | tests | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **word** | | your | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **word** | | the text | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:english:017-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text.lesson:24`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Retrieval: finding the answer in the t…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text/23/) - next →: [Retrieval: finding the answer in the t…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text/)