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title: Telling a teacher quietly about cheating is better than making a pub… — Honest work at school · tree and pragmatics
description: Telling a teacher quietly about cheating is better than making a public scene. Who acts: Telling. 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 19

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Telling a teacher quietly about cheating is better than making a public scene.

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**Who acts:** Telling · **What happens:** tell, be, make · **To what, where:** teacher, public scene · **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 (Telling), 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:19
# text = Telling a teacher quietly about cheating is better than making a public scene.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
6	cheating	cheating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | a teacher |  |  | about cheating; quietly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient about cheating=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | Telling |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | Telling *not said here* | a public scene |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset scene=Product |

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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:19`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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