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title: Work that is copied teaches you nothing, so the gap shows up later i… — Honest work at school · tree and pragmatics
description: Work that is copied teaches you nothing, so the gap shows up later in tests where nobody can help you. Who acts: Work, gap, nobody. 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 23

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Work that is copied teaches you nothing, so the gap shows up later in tests where nobody can help you.

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**Who acts:** Work, gap, nobody · **What happens:** copy, teach, show up, help · **To what, where:** Work, nothing, you, tests

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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 (Work, gap, nobody), 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:23
# text = Work that is copied teaches you nothing, so the gap shows up later in tests where nobody can help you.
# 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	Work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	copied	copy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	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** | present · passive |  | Work |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Work | nothing | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient nothing=Topic |
| 3 | **show up** | present | the gap |  |  | tests |  | late *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in test=Location |
| 4 | **help** | can | nobody |  | you |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |

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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:23`.

**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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