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title: Cheating at school means getting a mark for work or answers that are… — Cheating at school: copying and peeking · tree and pragmatics
description: Cheating at school means getting a mark for work or answers that are not really yours: copying, peeking, using hidden notes or handing in someone else's work. Who acts: Cheating, answers, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating at school: copying and peeking» of the religion ethics course of Mov
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# Cheating at school: copying and peeking, sentence 0

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Cheating at school means getting a mark for work or answers that are not really yours: copying, peeking, using hidden notes or handing in someone else's work.

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**Who acts:** Cheating, answers, someone · **What happens:** cheat, mean, get, not be, peek, use · **To what, where:** school, mark, yours, hidden notes, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating at school: copying and peeking» 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 (Cheating, answers, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:092-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking.lesson:0
# text = Cheating at school means getting a mark for work or answers that are not really yours: copying, peeking, using hidden notes or handing in someone else's work.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 092-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Cheating	cheat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	csubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	ccomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	really	really	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	copying	copying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	peeking	peek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
23	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	handing	hand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
28	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	else	else	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
31	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **cheat** | gerund |  |  |  | school |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Cheating |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get** | gerund |  | a mark |  |  |  | for work or answers | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent mark=Theme for work=Source |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | answers | yours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **peek** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **use** | gerund |  | hidden notes |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Patient |
| 7 | **hand in** | gerund |  | someone's work |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 8 | **work** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 ×4, R7-rel-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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