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title: A boy beat a video game using cheat codes and tells his class he fin… — Playing fair and cheating in games · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy beat a video game using cheat codes and tells his class he finished it fairly. What is wrong? Test 2 · ★ 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
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# Test 2 · ★ · Playing fair and cheating in games

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A boy beat a video game using cheat codes and tells his class he finished it fairly. What is wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** beat, use, tell, finish, be · **To what, where:** video game, cheat codes, class · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy beat a video game using cheat codes and tells his class he finished it fairly.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:200-cheating-in-games:t2:1
# text = A boy beat a video game using cheat codes and tells his class he finished it fairly.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	cheat	cheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	codes	code	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | past | a boy | a video game |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location game=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | a boy *not said here* | cheat codes |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent code=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a boy *not said here* | boy's class |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent class=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **finish** | past | boy | class |  |  |  | fairly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:200-cheating-in-games:t2:2
# text = What is wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nothing, since only he played it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:200-cheating-in-games:t2:o1:1
# text = Nothing, since only he played it
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | he | it |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Video games do not count as games

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:200-cheating-in-games:t2:o2:1
# text = Video games do not count as games
1	Video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **count** | present · do-support | Video games |  |  |  |  | as games | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as game=Attribute |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Claiming the score as fair is a lie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:200-cheating-in-games:t2:o3:1
# text = Claiming the score as fair is a lie
1	Claiming	claim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | gerund |  | the score |  |  |  | as fair | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent score=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Claiming | a lie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Using cheat codes alone is against the law

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:200-cheating-in-games:t2:o4:1
# text = Using cheat codes alone is against the law
1	Using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	cheat	cheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	codes	code	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | gerund |  | cheat codes |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent code=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Using |  |  |  |  | against the law | tree rules |

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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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