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title: Picture a spelling test where one child glances at a neighbour's pap… — Cheating, rules and games · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a spelling test where one child glances at a neighbour's paper: even if nobody notices, the mark is a lie about what that child knows, and it is unfair to everyone who learnt the words honestly. Who acts: you, one child, nobody, mark. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating, rules and games» of t
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# Cheating, rules and games, sentence 1

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Picture a spelling test where one child glances at a neighbour's paper: even if nobody notices, the mark is a lie about what that child knows, and it is unfair to everyone who learnt the words honestly.

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**Who acts:** you, one child, nobody, mark, child · **What happens:** picture, glance, notice, be, know, learn · **To what, where:** spelling test, lie, words

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating, rules and games» of the religion ethics 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 (you, one child, nobody, mark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:044-cheating-rules-and-games.lesson:1
# text = Picture a spelling test where one child glances at a neighbour's paper: even if nobody notices, the mark is a lie about what that child knows, and it is unfair to everyone who learnt the words honestly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 044-cheating-rules-and-games.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
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	glances	glance	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
11	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	18	nsubj	_	_
18	notices	notice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nmod	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	34	obl	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	learnt	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a spelling test |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent test=Theme |
| 2 | **glance** | present | one child |  |  |  |  | at a neighbour's paper | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at paper=Theme |
| 3 | **notice** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the mark | a lie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | present | that child |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | present | child |  |  |  |  | to everyone; unfair *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **learn** | past |  | the words |  |  |  | honestly *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |

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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. **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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