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title: Forging a parent's signature is a serious lie that breaks trust with… — Honest work at school · tree and pragmatics
description: Forging a parent's signature is a serious lie that breaks trust with school and family. Who acts: Forging, serious lie, parent. A sentence of the lesson «Honest work at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Honest work at school, sentence 16

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Forging a parent's signature is a serious lie that breaks trust with school and family.

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**Who acts:** Forging, serious lie, parent · **What happens:** forge, be, break, sign · **To what, where:** signature, serious lie, trust

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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 (Forging, serious lie, parent), 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:16
# text = Forging a parent's signature is a serious lie that breaks trust with school and family.
# 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	Forging	forge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	signature	signature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **forge** | gerund |  | a parent's signature |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signature=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Forging | a serious lie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** | present | a serious lie | trust |  |  |  | with school and family | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent trust=Patient with school=Instrument |
| 4 | **sign** |  | a parent |  |  |  |  |  | nom signature «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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**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:16`.

**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/).

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