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title: Never sign a note or reading log for a parent; forging a signature i… — Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm · tree and pragmatics
description: Never sign a note or reading log for a parent; forging a signature is a serious lie that breaks trust with school and family. Who acts: you, forging, serious lie. 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 11

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Never sign a note or reading log for a parent; forging a signature is a serious lie that breaks trust with school and family.

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**Who acts:** you, forging, serious lie · **What happens:** not sign, forge, be, break · **To what, where:** note, signature, serious lie, trust

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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, forging, serious lie), 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:11
# text = Never sign a note or reading log for a parent; forging a signature is a serious lie that breaks trust with school and family.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	sign	sign	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	_	7	compound	_	_
7	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	forging	forge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	signature	signature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **not** **sign** | imperative | you *not said here* | a note or reading log |  |  |  | for a parent | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent note=Destination |
| 2 | **forge** | gerund |  | a signature |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signature=Product |
| 3 | **is a** | present | forging | a serious lie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** | present | a serious lie | trust |  |  |  | with school and family | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent trust=Patient with school=Instrument |

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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:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play.lesson:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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