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title: Changing the words on a report is faking an official paper and is ta… — The forged signature and how it always ends · tree and pragmatics
description: Changing the words on a report is faking an official paper and is taken very seriously. Who acts: Changing. 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 every clause.
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# The forged signature and how it always ends, sentence 30

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Changing the words on a report is faking an official paper and is taken very seriously.

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**Who acts:** Changing · **What happens:** change, fake, take · **To what, where:** words, report, official paper

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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 (Changing), 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:30
# text = Changing the words on a report is faking an official paper and is taken very seriously.
# 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): no change
1	Changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	faking	fake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **change** | gerund |  | the words |  | a report |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **fake** | present · progressive | Changing | a official paper |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | present · passive | Changing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | seriously *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» |

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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:429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends.lesson:30`.

**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): no change. **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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