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title: Owning up when the referee missed something shows fair play, which p… — Playing fair and cheating in games · tree and pragmatics
description: Owning up when the referee missed something shows fair play, which people respect. Who acts: referee, Owning, people. 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.
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# Playing fair and cheating in games, sentence 20

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Owning up when the referee missed something shows fair play, which people respect.

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**Who acts:** referee, Owning, people · **What happens:** own up, miss, show, respect · **To what, where:** something, fair play · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (referee, Owning, people), 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:20
# text = Owning up when the referee missed something shows fair play, which people respect.
# 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): no change
1	Owning	own	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	referee	referee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	respect	respect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **miss** | past | the referee | something |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 3 | **show** | present | Owning | fair play |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent play=Recipient |
| 4 | **respect** | present | people | fair play |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |

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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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**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:20`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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