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title: Max in Dublin copied his friend's maths homework twice and got away… — Copying and peeking in tests · tree and pragmatics
description: Max in Dublin copied his friend's maths homework twice and got away with it, so he thought he always could. Who acts: Max. 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.
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# Copying and peeking in tests, sentence 4

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Max in Dublin copied his friend's maths homework twice and got away with it, so he thought he always could.

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**Who acts:** Max · **What happens:** copy, get away, think · **To what, where:** maths homework

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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 (Max), 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:4
# text = Max in Dublin copied his friend's maths homework twice and got away with it, so he thought he always could.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Max	Max	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	copied	copy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	maths	math	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
9	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **copy** | past | Max in Dublin | Max's friend's maths homework |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Theme |
| 2 | **get away** | past | Max in Dublin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with homework; away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Max |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests.lesson:4`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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