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title: If a teacher adds up your marks wrongly in your favour, telling them… — Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in gam… · tree and pragmatics
description: If a teacher adds up your marks wrongly in your favour, telling them shows real integrity. Who acts: teacher, telling, your. A sentence of the lesson «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks, sentence 19

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If a teacher adds up your marks wrongly in your favour, telling them shows real integrity.

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**Who acts:** teacher, telling, your · **What happens:** add up, tell, show, mark, favour · **To what, where:** marks, favour, real integrity · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks» 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, telling, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.lesson:19
# text = If a teacher adds up your marks wrongly in your favour, telling them shows real integrity.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.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 ×3, 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	15	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
8	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11: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	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	integrity	integrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos

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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 marks |  | your favour |  | wrongly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | marks *= mark* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **show** | present | telling | real integrity |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent integrity=Recipient |
| 4 | **mark** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **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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**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:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.lesson:19`.

**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 ×3, 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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