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title: A prize for work a parent did is unfair to the other children: "The… — Cheating at school: copying and peeking · tree and pragmatics
description: A prize for work a parent did is unfair to the other children: "The Lord detests dishonest scales" (Proverbs 11:1). Who acts: parent, prize, Lord. 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 th
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# Cheating at school: copying and peeking, sentence 9

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A prize for work a parent did is unfair to the other children: "The Lord detests dishonest scales" (Proverbs 11:1).

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**Who acts:** parent, prize, Lord · **What happens:** do, be, detest · **To what, where:** prize, dishonest scales · **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 (parent, prize, Lord), 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:9
# text = A prize for work a parent did is unfair to the other children: "The Lord detests dishonest scales" (Proverbs 11:1).
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	detests	detest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
19	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Proverbs	proverb	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:dep
24	11:1	11:1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	_
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=narrator, act=evaluate, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | a parent | a prize for work *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | a prize for work |  |  |  |  | to the other children; unfair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **detest** *in a quote* | present | the Lord | dishonest scales |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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

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