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title: If a teacher adds up your mark wrongly in your favour, tell them; ho… — Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm · tree and pragmatics
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# Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm, sentence 12

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If a teacher adds up your mark wrongly in your favour, tell them; honesty about mistakes that help you shows real integrity, which means being honest even when nobody would find out.

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**Who acts:** teacher, you, mistakes, honesty, real integrity, nobody · **What happens:** add up, tell, help, show, mean, be · **To what, where:** mark, favour, note, you, real integrity · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (teacher, you, mistakes, honesty), 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:12
# text = If a teacher adds up your mark wrongly in your favour, tell them; honesty about mistakes that help you shows real integrity, which means being honest even when nobody would find out.
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	integrity	integrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	cop	_	_
29	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:ccomp
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	34	mark	_	_
32	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	34	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **add up** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a teacher | your mark |  | your favour |  | wrongly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | note |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **help** | present | mistakes |  | you |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **show** | present | honesty about mistakes | real integrity |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent integrity=Recipient |
| 5 | **mean** | present | real integrity |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** *not said to happen* | gerund | real integrity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **find out** | would | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **mark** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **favour** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling 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.

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