--- title: Cutting a corner in a race is cheating too: a runner seen doing it i… — Copying and peeking in tests · tree and pragmatics description: Cutting a corner in a race is cheating too: a runner seen doing it is taken off the results. Who acts: Cutting. A sentence of the lesson «Copying and peeking in tests» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests/22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Copying and peeking in tests](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests/) / 22 # Copying and peeking in tests, sentence 22 Cutting a corner in a race is cheating too: a runner seen doing it is taken off the results. **Who acts:** Cutting · **What happens:** cut, cheat, see, do, take off · **To what, where:** corner, race, runner This is a sentence of the lesson «Copying and peeking in tests» 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 (Cutting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests.lesson:22 # text = Cutting a corner in a race is cheating too: a runner seen doing it is taken off the results. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests.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 Cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 cheating cheat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 too too ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 runner runner NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 18 off off ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 results result NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | gerund | | a corner | | a race | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset corner=Product | | 2 | **cheat** | present · progressive | Cutting | | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **see** | participle | | a runner *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **do** | gerund | | runner | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 5 | **take off** | present · passive | | a runner | | | | off the results | tree rules | 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:340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests.lesson:22`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Copying and peeking in tests, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests/21/) - next →: [Copying and peeking in tests, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests/)