--- title: Pointing out a mistake calmly keeps a game fair without starting a f… — Playing fair and cheating in games · tree and pragmatics description: Pointing out a mistake calmly keeps a game fair without starting a fight. Who acts: Pointing. A sentence of the lesson «Playing fair and cheating in games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Playing fair and cheating in games](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/) / 12 # Playing fair and cheating in games, sentence 12 Pointing out a mistake calmly keeps a game fair without starting a fight. **Who acts:** Pointing · **What happens:** point out, keep, start · **To what, where:** mistake, game, fight This is a sentence of the lesson «Playing fair and cheating in games» of the everyday 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 (Pointing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:200-cheating-in-games.lesson:12 # text = Pointing out a mistake calmly keeps a game fair without starting a fight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 200-cheating-in-games.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Pointing point VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 2 out out ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 10 without without SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **point out** | gerund | | a mistake | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Patient | | 2 | **keep** | present | Pointing | a game | | | | calmly, fair *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | | 3 | **start** | gerund | Pointing *not said here* | a fight | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:200-cheating-in-games.lesson:12`. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Playing fair and cheating in games, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/11/) - next →: [Playing fair and cheating in games, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/200-cheating-in-games/)