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title: Telling a teacher about a mistake that gave you a better mark shows… — Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in ga… · tree and pragmatics
description: Telling a teacher about a mistake that gave you a better mark shows real integrity. Who acts: mistake, Telling. A sentence of the lesson «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing, sentence 16

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Telling a teacher about a mistake that gave you a better mark shows real integrity.

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**Who acts:** mistake, Telling · **What happens:** tell, give, show · **To what, where:** teacher, better mark, you, real integrity · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» 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 (mistake, Telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:16
# text = Telling a teacher about a mistake that gave you a better mark shows real integrity.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.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	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	iobj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	integrity	integrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | a teacher |  |  | about a mistake | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient about mistake=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | past | a mistake | a better mark | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient mark=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | present | Telling | real integrity |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent integrity=Recipient |

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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:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:16`.

**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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