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title: Copying someone else's writing as your own is called plagiarism; wri… — Honest work at school · tree and pragmatics
description: Copying someone else's writing as your own is called plagiarism; write in your own words and say where facts came from. Who acts: Copying, facts, someone, your. A sentence of the lesson «Honest work at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Honest work at school, sentence 14

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Copying someone else's writing as your own is called plagiarism; write in your own words and say where facts came from.

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**Who acts:** Copying, facts, someone, your · **What happens:** copy, call, write, say, come, word · **To what, where:** writing, plagiarism, own words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Copying, facts, someone, your), 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:14
# text = Copying someone else's writing as your own is called plagiarism; write in your own words and say where facts came from.
# 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): no change
1	Copying	copy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
5	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	plagiarism	plagiarism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
21	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **copy** | gerund |  | someone's writing |  |  |  | as your own | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Theme |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Copying | plagiarism |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **write** | infinitive | Copying *not said here* |  |  | your own words |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in word=Destination |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Copying *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** | past | facts |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **write** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom writing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **word** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | 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): 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.

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