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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Copying, test, you), 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:20 # text = Copying in a test is cheating, and it hides from the teacher what you still need to learn; if you did it, tell the teacher. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Copying copy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 cheating cheat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 acl _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:advcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 26 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **copy** | gerund | | | | a test | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in test=Destination | | 2 | **is** | present | Copying | | | | | cheat *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hide** | present | test | | | | | from the teacher | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from teacher=Beneficiary | | 4 | **need** | present | you | | | | still | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **learn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | test | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | the teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | 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. **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:20`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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