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title: Copying someone else's writing and pretending it is yours is called… — Honest work at school · tree and pragmatics
description: Copying someone else's writing and pretending it is yours is called plagiarism. Who acts: writing, someone. 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 4

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Copying someone else's writing and pretending it is yours is called plagiarism.

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**Who acts:** writing, someone · **What happens:** copy, pretend, be, call, write · **To what, where:** writing, yours, plagiarism · **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 (writing, someone), 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:4
# text = Copying someone else's writing and pretending it is yours is called plagiarism.
# 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	Copying	copy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj:pass
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
5	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	ccomp	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	plagiarism	plagiarism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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** | gerund |  | someone's writing |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Theme |
| 2 | **pretend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | writing | yours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | present · passive |  | plagiarism |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **write** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom writing «act 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:4`.

**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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