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title: unsportsmanlike — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «unsportsmanlike» in the school dictionary: Not fair, or not following the rules of a game; not behaving as a good sport should. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# unsportsmanlike

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**Who acts:** game, It, Shouting, Hitting · **What happens:** not follow, not behave, rule, be, kick away, shout · **To what, where:** rules, ball, referee, someone

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«unsportsmanlike» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [unsportsmanlike in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/unsportsmanlike.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Not fair, or not following the rules of a game; not behaving as a good sport should.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unsportsmanlike:m1:1
# text = Not fair, or not following the rules of a game; not behaving as a good sport should.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	behaving	behave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **follow** | gerund |  | the rules of a game |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **behave** | should |  |  |  |  |  | as a good sport | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as sport=Attribute |
| 3 | **rule** |  | a game |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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It was unsportsmanlike to kick the ball away.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unsportsmanlike:x1:1
# text = It was unsportsmanlike to kick the ball away.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	unsportsmanlike	unsportsmanlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | unsportsmanlike *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kick away** | to-infinitive |  | the ball |  |  |  | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ball=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Shouting at the referee is unsportsmanlike.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unsportsmanlike:x2:1
# text = Shouting at the referee is unsportsmanlike.
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	referee	referee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	unsportsmanlike	unsportsmanlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  | the referee |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Shouting |  |  |  |  | unsportsmanlike *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Hitting someone who is down is unsportsmanlike.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unsportsmanlike:x3:1
# text = Hitting someone who is down is unsportsmanlike.
1	Hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	unsportsmanlike	unsportsmanlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | gerund |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme someone=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Hitting |  |  |  |  | unsportsmanlike *property* | tree rules |

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**Text:** the school dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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