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title: Teachers and computer checkers often spot copied work, and cheating… — Honest work at school · tree and pragmatics
description: Teachers and computer checkers often spot copied work, and cheating usually means a zero and a talk with your parents. Who acts: Teachers, cheating. 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 c
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# Honest work at school, sentence 24

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Teachers and computer checkers often spot copied work, and cheating usually means a zero and a talk with your parents.

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**Who acts:** Teachers, cheating · **What happens:** spot, copy, mean · **To what, where:** copied work, zero

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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 (Teachers, cheating), 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:24
# text = Teachers and computer checkers often spot copied work, and cheating usually means a zero and a talk with your parents.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	computer	computer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	checkers	checker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	spot	spot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	copied	copy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	cheating	cheating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	zero	zero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **spot** | present | Teachers and computer checkers | copied work |  |  |  | often *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent work=Destination |
| 2 | **copy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | cheating | a zero and a talk with your parents |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zero=Topic |

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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:24`.

**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): R8-pos-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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