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title: If you are tempted because you're scared or stuck, tell the teacher;… — Cheating at school: copying and peeking · tree and pragmatics
description: If you are tempted because you're scared or stuck, tell the teacher; you'll get help, not trouble. Who acts: you. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cheating at school: copying and peeking, sentence 4

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If you are tempted because you're scared or stuck, tell the teacher; you'll get help, not trouble.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** tempt, be, tell, get · **To what, where:** you, teacher, help · **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 (you), 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:4
# text = If you are tempted because you're scared or stuck, tell the teacher; you'll get help, not trouble.
# 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 ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	tempted	tempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **tempt** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | the teacher |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 5 | **get** | future | you | help and trouble |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus |

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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.

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

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