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title: Self-marking is an honour system: it only works with trust; an hones… — Cheating at school: copying and peeking · tree and pragmatics
description: Self-marking is an honour system: it only works with trust; an honest 8 out of 10 beats a fake 10. Who acts: Self marking, marking, honest 8. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating at school: copying and peeking» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Cheating at school: copying and peeking, sentence 13

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Self-marking is an honour system: it only works with trust; an honest 8 out of 10 beats a fake 10.

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**Who acts:** Self marking, marking, honest 8 · **What happens:** be, work, beat · **To what, where:** honour system, fake 10

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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 (Self marking, marking, honest 8), 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:13
# text = Self-marking is an honour system: it only works with trust; an honest 8 out of 10 beats a fake 10.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	marking	marking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl:relcl
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advcl
17	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nsubj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
21	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | Self marking | a honour system |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | present | marking |  |  |  |  | with trust | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with trust=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **beat** | present | a honest 8 out 10 | a fake 10 |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 10=Theme |

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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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**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:religion-ethics:092-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking.lesson:13`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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