--- title: Copying someone's work or ideas and saying they are yours is not fai… — The copier and the one who competes at everything · tree and pragmatics description: Copying someone's work or ideas and saying they are yours is not fair; keeping dated notes of your ideas helps show they were yours. Who acts: clothes, Copying, keeping, 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 (clothes, Copying, keeping, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.lesson:29 # text = Copying someone's work or ideas and saying they are yours is not fair; keeping dated notes of your ideas helps show they were yours. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Copying copy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 ccomp _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 16 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ _ 17 dated dated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 23 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 ccomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **copy** | gerund | | someone's work or ideas | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | clothes | yours | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | Copying | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **keep** | gerund | | dated notes of your ideas | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme | | 6 | **help** | present | keeping | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **show** | infinitive | keeping *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** | past | clothes | yours | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **work** | | someone | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 10 | **note** | | | your ideas | | | | | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.lesson:29`. **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): 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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