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title: A test shows the teacher what you know so they can help with what yo… — Honest work at school · tree and pragmatics
description: A test shows the teacher what you know so they can help with what you do not; homework is practice that makes things stick. Who acts: test, you, Tests, homework. A sentence of the lesson «Honest work at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Honest work at school, sentence 1

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A test shows the teacher what you know so they can help with what you do not; homework is practice that makes things stick.

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**Who acts:** test, you, Tests, homework, practice, things · **What happens:** show, know, help, not do, be, make · **To what, where:** teacher, practice, things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest work at school» of the everyday 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 (test, you, Tests, homework), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework.lesson:1
# text = A test shows the teacher what you know so they can help with what you do not; homework is practice that makes things stick.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	obj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **show** | present | a test |  | the teacher |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient what=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **help** | can | Tests *= test* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with what=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **do** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | homework | practice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | present | practice | things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **stick** | infinitive | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:everyday:201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework.lesson:1`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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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