--- title: Paying someone to write your essay steals credit and lies to the tea… — Why cheating hurts the cheat · tree and pragmatics description: Paying someone to write your essay steals credit and lies to the teacher: "You shall not steal" (Exodus 20:15); universities treat it as serious cheating. Who acts: Paying, You, universities, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paying, You, universities, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:094-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat.lesson:16 # text = Paying someone to write your essay steals credit and lies to the teacher: "You shall not steal" (Exodus 20:15); universities treat it as serious cheating. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 094-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 essay essay NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 steals steal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 8 credit credit NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 16 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 steal steal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Exodus Exodus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 20:15 20:15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 flat _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 26 universities university NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 treat treat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 cheating cheating NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | gerund | | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **write** | to-infinitive | | your essay | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent essay=Theme | | 3 | **steal** | present | Paying | credit | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location credit=Theme | | 4 | **lie** | present | Paying *not said here* | | | | | to the teacher | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **steal** *in a quote* | shall | You | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **treat** | present | universities | credit | | | | as serious cheating | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as cheating=Attribute | | 7 | **essay** | | your | | | | | | nom essay «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. 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