--- title: If you have already faked a paper, telling a trusted grown-up now is… — The forged signature and how it always ends · tree and pragmatics description: If you have already faked a paper, telling a trusted grown-up now is better than waiting for it to be found. Who acts: you, telling. 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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 (you, telling), 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:34 # text = If you have already faked a paper, telling a trusted grown-up now is better than waiting for it to be found. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 already already ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 faked fake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 csubj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 grown grow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound _ _ 15 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 18 than than SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl 22 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fake** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | you | a paper | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Patient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | a trusted grown | | | now | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient | | 3 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | telling | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **wait** | gerund | telling *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **find** | to-infinitive · passive | | grown *= grow* | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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:429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends.lesson:34`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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