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title: Forgery means signing someone else's name, or faking a paper, to mak… — The forged signature and how it always ends · tree and pragmatics
description: Forgery means signing someone else's name, or faking a paper, to make people believe it is real. Who acts: Forgery, people, someone. A sentence of the lesson «The forged signature and how it always ends» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The forged signature and how it always ends, sentence 24

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Forgery means signing someone else's name, or faking a paper, to make people believe it is real.

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**Who acts:** Forgery, people, someone · **What happens:** mean, sign, fake, make, believe, be · **To what, where:** name, paper · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The forged signature and how it always ends» 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 (Forgery, people, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends.lesson:24
# text = Forgery means signing someone else's name, or faking a paper, to make people believe it is real.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends.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 ×2
1	Forgery	forgery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	signing	sign	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	else	else	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	faking	fake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | Forgery |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sign** *not said to happen* | gerund | Forgery *not said here* | someone's name |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Destination |
| 3 | **fake** | gerund | Forgery *not said here* | a paper |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | Forgery *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **believe** | infinitive | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | present | forgery |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **name** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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**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 ×2. **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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