Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit, sentence 1
Copying to learn is fine; the problem starts when you pass off someone else's work as your own, like entering a traced picture in a competition or pasting a website's sentences into homework.
Who acts: Copying, problem, you, someone, website · What happens: copy, learn, be, start, pass off, enter · To what, where: work, traced picture, competition, sentences, homework
This is a sentence of the lesson «Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit» of the arts 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 (Copying, problem, you, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copying | copy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 fine | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 learn | mark |
| 3 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Copying | xcomp |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | cop |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 starts | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 problem | det |
| 8 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 starts | nsubj |
| 9 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | parataxis |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 pass | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 pass | nsubj |
| 12 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 starts | advcl |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 pass | compound:prt |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 work | nmod:poss |
| 15 | else | else | ADV | _ | 14 someone | advmod |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 someone | case |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pass | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 own | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 own | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pass | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 entering | punct |
| 22 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 23 entering | mark |
| 23 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 fine | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 picture | det |
| 25 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 picture | amod |
| 26 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 entering | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 competition | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 competition | det |
| 29 | competition | competition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 entering | obl |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 pasting | cc |
| 31 | pasting | paste | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 entering | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 website | det |
| 33 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sentences | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 website | case |
| 35 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pasting | obj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 homework | case |
| 37 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pasting | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | Copying | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | start | present | the problem | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | pass off | present | you | someone's work | as your own | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent work=Duration as own=Attribute | |||
| 6 | enter | gerund | a traced picture | a competition | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme picture=Destination | ||||
| 7 | trace | participle | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | paste | gerund | a website's sentences | homework | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient | ||||
| 9 | work | someone | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | sentence | a website | nom sentence «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, 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:arts:035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.lesson:1.
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 ×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.
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