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title: A boy in Ohio copied his friend's maths homework all term; in the en… — Honest work at school · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Ohio copied his friend's maths homework all term; in the end-of-year test he could not do long division at all, and he had to repeat the work over the summer. Who acts: boy. A sentence of the lesson «Honest work at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Honest work at school, sentence 21

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A boy in Ohio copied his friend's maths homework all term; in the end-of-year test he could not do long division at all, and he had to repeat the work over the summer.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** copy, not do, have, repeat · **To what, where:** maths homework, long division, all, work

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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 (boy), 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:21
# text = A boy in Ohio copied his friend's maths homework all term; in the end-of-year test he could not do long division at all, and he had to repeat the work over the summer.
# 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	copied	copy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	compound	_	_
10	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
16	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	division	division	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	over	over	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | past | a boy in Ohio | boy's friend's maths homework |  |  |  | all term *obl:unmarked* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **do** | could | boy | long division |  | all |  | of the end year test | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent division=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **repeat** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | the work |  |  | summer |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |

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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:21`.

**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 ×4, 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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