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title: Letting someone copy is cheating too; Paul says not to "put any stum… — Cheating at school: copying and peeking · tree and pragmatics
description: Letting someone copy is cheating too; Paul says not to "put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister" (Romans 14:13). Who acts: someone, Letting, Paul. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating at school: copying and peeking» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school w
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# Cheating at school: copying and peeking, sentence 12

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Letting someone copy is cheating too; Paul says not to "put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister" (Romans 14:13).

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**Who acts:** someone, Letting, Paul · **What happens:** let, copy, be, say, not put · **To what, where:** stumbling block, way · **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 (someone, Letting, Paul), 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:12
# text = Letting someone copy is cheating too; Paul says not to "put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister" (Romans 14:13).
# 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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	copy	copy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	cheating	cheat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obj
15	stumbling	stumble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
16	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obj
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	obstacle	obstacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Romans	Romans	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	14:13	14:13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **let** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **copy** | infinitive | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Letting |  |  |  |  | cheat *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Paul |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **put** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | any stumbling block or obstacle |  | the way of a brother or sister  14:13 and Romans |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent block=Theme in way=Destination |

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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 ×5, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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