--- title: Making fake proof, like pouring juice on a sheet, turns a fib into a… — «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework · tree and pragmatics description: Making fake proof, like pouring juice on a sheet, turns a fib into a plan to fool someone, and teachers take it more seriously. Who acts: Making, teachers. 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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 (Making, teachers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.lesson:24 # text = Making fake proof, like pouring juice on a sheet, turns a fib into a plan to fool someone, and teachers take it more seriously. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj 2 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 proof proof NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 like like SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 pouring pour VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obl 7 juice juice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sheet sheet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 fib fib NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 fool fool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 20 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 27 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | gerund | | fake proof | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset proof=Product | | 2 | **pour** | gerund | | juice | | a sheet | | | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent juice=Patient | | 3 | **turn** | present | Making | a fib | | a plan | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fib=Theme into plan=Trajectory | | 4 | **fool** | to-infinitive | Making *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | | 5 | **take** | present | teachers | fib | | | | seriously *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.lesson:24`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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