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title: Copying text and passing it off as your own is plagiarism, a kind of… — Breakfast, the school day and honest homework · tree and pragmatics
description: Copying text and passing it off as your own is plagiarism, a kind of cheating; write in your own words and say where the facts came from. Who acts: you, facts, your. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Breakfast, the school day and honest homework, sentence 16

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Copying text and passing it off as your own is plagiarism, a kind of cheating; write in your own words and say where the facts came from.

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**Who acts:** you, facts, your · **What happens:** copy, pass off, be, write, say, come · **To what, where:** text, own words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the school day and honest 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 (you, facts, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.lesson:16
# text = Copying text and passing it off as your own is plagiarism, a kind of cheating; write in your own words and say where the facts came from.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 306-breakfast-the-school-day-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 ×3
1	Copying	copy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	nsubj	_	_
2	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	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	_	11	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	plagiarism	plagiarism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
16	cheating	cheating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
18	write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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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 |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as own plagiarism | tree rules |
| 4 | **write** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | your own words |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in word=Destination |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **come** | past | the facts |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **word** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «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 ×3. **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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