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description: Copying, forging a parent's signature or keeping a mark you did not earn all hide the truth that the test is meant to find. Who acts: you, Copying, truth, parent. A sentence of the lesson «Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm, sentence 1

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Copying, forging a parent's signature or keeping a mark you did not earn all hide the truth that the test is meant to find.

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**Who acts:** you, Copying, truth, parent · **What happens:** copy, forge, keep, not earn, hide, mean · **To what, where:** signature, mark, truth, test

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm» 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 (you, Copying, truth, parent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play.lesson:1
# text = Copying, forging a parent's signature or keeping a mark you did not earn all hide the truth that the test is meant to find.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play.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	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	forging	forge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	signature	signature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **forge** | gerund |  | a parent's signature |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signature=Product |
| 3 | **keep** | gerund |  | a mark |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **earn** | past · do-support | you | a mark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme |
| 5 | **hide** | present | Copying | the truth |  |  |  | all *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Patient |
| 6 | **mean** | present · passive | the truth *not said here* | the test |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **find** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the truth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **sign** |  | a parent |  |  |  |  |  | nom signature «communication 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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**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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