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title: Your own imperfect work is worth more than someone else's perfect wo… — Copying and peeking in tests · tree and pragmatics
description: Your own imperfect work is worth more than someone else's perfect work with your name on it. Who acts: own imperfect work, Your, someone. 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 claus
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# Copying and peeking in tests, sentence 23

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Your own imperfect work is worth more than someone else's perfect work with your name on it.

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**Who acts:** own imperfect work, Your, someone · **What happens:** be, work, name · **To what, where:** name

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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 (own imperfect work, Your, someone), 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:23
# text = Your own imperfect work is worth more than someone else's perfect work with your name on it.
# 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	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	imperfect	imperfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	else	else	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
12	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Your own imperfect work |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** |  | Your |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 3 | **work** |  | someone |  |  |  |  | with your name on name | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
| 4 | **name** |  | your |  |  | name |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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:340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests.lesson:23`.

**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/).

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