Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit, sentence 7
Facts are free to use, but someone's exact words are their writing; copying sentences without credit is called plagiarism.
Who acts: Facts, exact words, someone · What happens: be, use, copy, call, word · To what, where: writing, sentences, plagiarism · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Facts, exact words, 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 | Facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 free | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 free | cop |
| 3 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 use | mark |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 free | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 writing | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 writing | cc |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 words | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 someone | case |
| 10 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 words | amod |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 writing | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 writing | cop |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 writing | nmod:poss |
| 14 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 free | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 copying | punct |
| 16 | copying | copy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 free | parataxis |
| 17 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 copying | obj |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 19 credit | case |
| 19 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 copying | obl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | aux:pass |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 copying | advcl |
| 22 | plagiarism | plagiarism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 free | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Facts | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive | Facts not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | someone's exact words | words's writing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | copy | gerund | sentences | without credit | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme | ||||
| 5 | call | present · passive | plagiarism | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 6 | word | someone | nom word «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:7.
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.
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