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title: A boy in Leeds cheated in a class game by peeking; when the others f… — Playing fair and cheating in games · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Leeds cheated in a class game by peeking; when the others found out, nobody wanted him on their team for weeks. Who acts: boy, others, nobody. 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 pragm
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# Playing fair and cheating in games, sentence 21

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A boy in Leeds cheated in a class game by peeking; when the others found out, nobody wanted him on their team for weeks.

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**Who acts:** boy, others, nobody · **What happens:** cheat, peek, find out, want · **To what, where:** class game, boy, team

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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 (boy, others, nobody), 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:21
# text = A boy in Leeds cheated in a class game by peeking; when the others found out, nobody wanted him on their team for weeks.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	cheated	cheat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	peeking	peek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **cheat** | past | a boy in Leeds |  |  | a class game |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **peek** | gerund | a boy in Leeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find out** | past | the others |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **want** | past | nobody | boy |  | others's team | week |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |

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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:21`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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