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title: Copying text and passing it off as your own is plagiarism, a kind of… — Classroom rules and homework · tree and pragmatics
description: Copying text and passing it off as your own is plagiarism, a kind of cheating. Who acts: Copying. A sentence of the lesson «Classroom rules and homework» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Classroom rules and homework, sentence 14

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Copying text and passing it off as your own is plagiarism, a kind of cheating.

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**Who acts:** Copying · **What happens:** copy, pass off, be · **To what, where:** text, plagiarism

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Classroom rules and homework» 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 (Copying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework.lesson:14
# text = Copying text and passing it off as your own is plagiarism, a kind of cheating.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 254-classroom-rules-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	Copying	copy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	plagiarism	plagiarism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	cheating	cheating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nmod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | gerund |  | text |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent text=Theme |
| 2 | **pass off** | gerund |  | text |  |  |  | as your own | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Duration as own=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Copying | plagiarism |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:254-classroom-rules-and-homework.lesson:14`.

**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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