--- title: Signing someone else's name to fool people is called forgery, and it… — The forged signature and how it always ends · tree and pragmatics description: Signing someone else's name to fool people is called forgery, and it is a serious kind of lie, because the paper says a grown-up agreed when they didn't. Who acts: Signing, name, paper, someone. 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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 (Signing, name, paper, 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:5 # text = Signing someone else's name to fool people is called forgery, and it is a serious kind of lie, because the paper says a grown-up agreed when they didn't. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Signing sign VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 csubj:pass _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 else else ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 5 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 fool fool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 forgery forgery NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 27 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 nsubj _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 29 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=27:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 30 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sign** | gerund | | someone's name | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Destination | | 2 | **fool** | to-infinitive | | people | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Signing | forgery | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | | 4 | **is a** | present | name | a serious kind | | | | of lie | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the paper | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **name** | | someone | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:5`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×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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