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title: let my 4yo cousin win snap, that cheating? — Playing fair and cheating in games · tree and pragmatics
description: let my 4yo cousin win snap, that cheating? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 200 «Playing fair and cheating in games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Playing fair and cheating in games

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let my 4yo cousin win snap, that cheating?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, yo cousin · **What happens:** let, win · **To what, where:** snap

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 200 «Playing fair and cheating in games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:200-cheating-in-games:t11:1
# text = let my 4yo cousin win snap, that cheating?
1	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	snap	snap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	cheating	cheating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **win** | present | my yo cousin | snap and that cheating |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snap=Eventuality |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, it's the worst cheating

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:200-cheating-in-games:t11:o1:1
# text = Yes, it's the worst cheating
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	cheating	cheating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | the worst cheating |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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No, it's kind to let a small child win sometimes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:200-cheating-in-games:t11:o2:1
# text = No, it's kind to let a small child win sometimes
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | kind, sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive |  | a small child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **win** | infinitive | a small child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, you must always try your hardest to win, whoever is playing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:200-cheating-in-games:t11:o3:1
# text = Yes, you must always try your hardest to win, whoever is playing
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | must | you | your hardest |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **win** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **play** | present · progressive | whoever |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only cheating if she notices

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:200-cheating-in-games:t11:o4:1
# text = Only cheating if she notices
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	cheating	cheat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	notices	notice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cheat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **notice** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **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 text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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